Tina Louise Hunderup

A MISSED CHANCE TO WONDERLAND

Broken ride 100 x 120 cm 2009

Falling wonder 180 x 115 2010

For a long period of time, Coney Island and its amusementpark was a place for dreaming, a place for experimenting and a place where people let their emotions run free and where you broke the everyday way of behaviour.
Coney Island was the birth place of architectural structures and technological inventions as for example larger steel constructions, the elevator and the first incubators. Objects that would be spread around the world and have impact on the way people live today.

It was the place where these real physical structures and inventions met with the surreal world of freakshows, dwarf towns and amusements, that all provoked an abnormal behaviour and became a playground for the normal visitor. People came here to experiment with something new, to relax and to find love.

For a long period the amusement park was this extraordinary place of exception where people went. But during the last 40 years the area has gradually lost its glamour and innovative character. The attention has been moved to Manhattan, and Coney Island is now more a subject of decay and trashy character.
An empty shell, that still contains traces of this weird and special place, where reality meets the surreal.

DIGITAL COLLAGES

Incomplete 2009

No title 2009

Inbetween 2011

Opening 2009

UNTOLD IDENTITIES

Temporary structures, closed down factories and demolished parts are all objects of a series of photos, which deals with the visual identity and potential of these overseen constructions and industrial structures in decay.

Architectural objects, which function has been the generator for the form, and which aesthetic value has not been planned. Through the motif and the capturing of layers and historic depth, the objects are being given an aesthetic identity and their story of use is being told.