Unrendered Spaces

Unrendered Spaces was a series of exhibitions dedicated to the strategies we use to perceive the environment, both inside and outside the city, and to the ways in which art can be used to explore it. Focusing on perceptive conflict and the multiple interpretations of living spaces, the project aimed to explore the political, social and aesthetic zones of tension by redefining the concept. Initially, the platform aimed to provide a discursive space for collaboration between artists, scholars, and urban activists to study post-Soviet urban spaces and architecture. The destruction of public spaces, the atomisation of the social sphere, and the commercialisation of urban life have dominated urban and architectural policies in the post-Soviet area, as well as in the 'former West'. Comprising six exhibitions — Objets Vus, City Porn, Responsible for Circulation, Shelter, ISLAND and Un Chien (V)andalou — the Unrendered Spaces project brought together individuals and groups from various backgrounds to share experiences and approaches to the multidisciplinary study of urban environments.