Moon City

Moon City explores the tension between humanity, capitalism, and consciousness in a time of global crisis. Blurred figures evoke social disconnection, while the City’s glass towers embody progress built on unchecked accumulation.

Moon City (2020–2025) is a photographic project created using a mobile phone and a telescope. From the vantage point of his balcony in East London, Mimi Mollica aligned his lens toward two opposing forces: the ancient, celestial presence of the Moon and the steel-and-glass monuments of London’s financial district. Over five years, these prolonged observations evolved into a sustained inquiry into power, fragility, and the shifting conditions of human existence.

Developed during a period marked by climate crisis, pandemic lockdowns, war, genocide, and the expanding influence of political and financial oligarchies, Moon City contemplates the tense and often perilous dialogue between humanity and the systems that shape, govern, and endanger it. The project juxtaposes the constancy of the Moon—an enduring symbol of nature, time, and collective memory—with the restless verticality of capitalist ambition and its architecture of unchecked accumulation.

At its core, Moon City is a meditation on our contemporary condition: a world suspended between wonder and control, introspection and acceleration, the individual and the machine. Through its subtle distortions, aberrations, and lunar apparitions, the work invites viewers to pause, look upward, and consider the forces—celestial, structural, and ideological—that shape our lives, our cities, and our futures.