Artists

Artist Bio

Dutch photographer Corine Vermeulen's work revolves around the phenomena of post-urban culture. She settled in Detroit in 2006 and has been documenting the city's shifting social and geographic ecologies. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cum Laude, in graphic design from the Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She has twice been the recipient of project grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB). Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently in Beijing, China. www.corinevermeulen.com

ArtX Project Description

Title: Recent photographs from the series Your Town Tomorrow, Detroit 2001 - 2011
Medium: Photo Series
Year Created: 2011
Description: Corine Vermeulen states that life in Detroit feels strangely futuristic. It is a prescient model of our failing post-industrial, post-urban culture and loss of civic life. But what does it mean to live in the aftermath of widespread cultural and economic collapse? How do people cope with it? What is the potential of all that vacant land? What would its use look like? Her ongoing series of photographs, Your Town Tomorrow, explore new topographies and ways of urban life. Detroit is capable of offering these scenarios because of its place in our current socio-economic system, rather than despite of it. These images function as a glimpse into an alternate future – as a series of memories of the future – in which things could be different. www.corinevermeulen.com