Ou-topos: No-place
This is a filmic world: the urban vision, in which space, though not existing in reality, is presented as more real than the actual world we live in. Having worked within the film and television industry, Macrae's new photographic works: from nowhere and are nowhere bound explores how popular culture produced by the media affects our perception. These works are stills within a filmstrip, a series of single frames once rooted in motion pictures. They are presented as individual photographs and function as a new sequence of images. The sequential pictures are stop-framed; the large interval gaps in between break down the narrative into incoherent fragments. These fragmented images of stereotypical street scenery of sunshine and blue-sky in Hollywood are depictions of urban America. Macrae has invited viewers to step into the cinematic world. These images are a mixture of the sublime and banal in American life in which the familiar cinematic experience collapses with viewers' re-entry to the not-real-world produced by Hollywood production.