Homo Urbanus

Through close observation of how people inhabit, adapt, appropriate, or endure the spaces that frame their lives, artists and filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine cast light on the way people and places influence each other to unveil how the built environment affects our physical, psychological, and emotional state.

In parallel to a body of films that have sought to humanise the way architecture is perceived and represented, since 2017 Bêka & Lemoine have been travelling the world to explore the idea of the city as an ecosystem, observing the peculiarities of the species they name Homo Urbanus in the international habitat it continues to construct—and be constructed by.

At MAC/CCB, the largest presentation of this extensive ongoing project to date exhibits over 13 hours of films from 13 very different cities—from Rabat to Venice, Tokyo to Mumbai.