Urban Reflections @ Stills

Forget postcard images of glittering skyscrapers, iconic buildings and national monuments, the five artists in this exhibition portray a much grittier reading of the city. Exploring issues of globalisation, consumerism and alienation, each artist questions whether there is room for humanity within today's technologically orientated and profit-driven society.

The climax is Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani's Tokyo Metropolitain Expressway which highlights the dominance of the car, exposing the city like a giant game of snakes and ladders dictated by circulation routes. Recycling footage of a car ride in from the film Solaris (1972) and juxtaposing it with their own contemporary film of the same route, they create a disorientating but strangely intriguing exhibit which brilliantly maps the passing of time.

For those wanting a crash course on modern architecture Dan Graham's documentary style video explaining his most famous work Two Way Mirror Cylinder Inside a Cube traces the rise of the steel and glass construction and the modern obsession with transparency. While the video feels a little dry and even tedious, his second exhibit, New Jersey, is far more exciting: a slide show which the viewer controls reveals the everyday happenings of a sleepy suburban seaside town. I couldn't help but feel a tang of sadness at the sight of overweight Americans munching on Mr Whippys in front of tacky neon signs.

Like a palimpsest, each artist uncovers a new layer of the city and represents it unashamedly, no matter how unsightly it happens to be. This is no tourist brochure.