is an artist working in urban, exhibition and stage space with specific reference to spatial narrative, spatial (auto) biography, and non physical space and its interfaces.
His recent work explores ways of mapping urban spaces in such a way that the
complexity and shifting nature of such entities can be expressed, with focus on issues of spatial location, dislocation, spatial drift and the complex layering of the built environment.
During a recent visit to Dubai he photographed a development where the suburbs names, England, China, Persia and Spain, were unconvincingly decorated to appear to be somewhere where they where not.
Using these photographs as a starting point for his contribution to the cairo biennale
He has generated an installation situated between a map and a theme park.
Lawrence is a professor at the University of the Arts Zurich
