Text Julia Mullié
All images Courtesy by the artist and Galerie Fons Welters
All images Courtesy by the artist and Galerie Fons Welters
McCarthy’s work often testifies to the paradoxal emptiness one can experience in a metropolis, amidst large numbers of people. Busy intersections within a city become symbols for roads where past and present intersect. The space that someone occupies has significance on both a physical and social level since structures of urban planning and architecture are reflections of ideas about social positions such as socio-economic class, gender and sexuality.
