'While photography lays claim to the real through its documentary and indexical nature, few artists have been able to defy the pictorial limits of the image by dissolving the picture frame, blurring the boundary between the image and the space in which it is viewed. An important exception has been the artist Hannah Collins. Her photographs can be experienced as an image and as a kind of architecture; as two-dimensional surface and as sculpture.' - Iwona Blazwick. Barcelona-based artist and photographer Hannah Collins addresses her work over the last ten years during a period of great change in the city. The lecture includes work made in the Catalan capital as well as in a number of other locations, including the industrial south of Poland (the second most polluted area of Europe after Chernobyl) and more recent work in Israel, both in the city and the desert. All of these locations enable Collins to document the omnipresence of a universal modernism and the global features of modernity. At the same time, her lens reveals the cracks and fissures through which the ancient and the culturally specific become visible. The global effects of shifting economic patterns and the power of place and architecture to communicate historic events are recurring themes in her work.