Capital
In Capital, Mark Hage reframes the story of gentrification, and in photographic portraits of shuttered retail spaces captures the hidden soul of the city. Exploring the accidental compositions that emerge in the built environment, he invites us to view an alternative to increasingly overmediated spaces in photographs of what is abandoned, altered, left behind, gutted. An elegy to a disappearing city becomes an emotional homage to the labors that built it.
Mark Hage, long based in New York's SoHo neighborhood, has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Parsons on the narratives of structure and form from ancient times to the present; and spoke at the New Museum on the intersection of creative forces. His work has appeared in NOON,Lit Hub, and A Public Space, where he is a contributing editor.
