Architectural spaces are depicted empty. Signs of every day life are invisible. The commonplace icons of consumer culture are avoided by the camera. The places she shows are more about ironical selfreflexivity. Some photographs dramatize the play of light and shadow, others exaggerate a subtle transparency. They evoke the condition of extreme fragmentation and spatial isolation. Her works help us grasp the political and economic links between the hunger for photographic images in urban centers, because unlike most sightseeing photographs Sevin’s pictures don’t duplicate reality but try to recreate it and reveal what remains hidden: the collapsing power structures, the details of the concrete fixtures, the preposturous silhouettes of the old constructions, the grotesque outlines and contours resulting in the fragmentation of identity in an evergrowing city.
