Jeudi 04 Décembre 2014 11:27:17 par actuphoto dans Expositions

I visited the ice-skating lanes where Belgian psychopath Marc Dutroux used to go skating before he started to kidnap young girls. I visited the meadow on the top of a mountain where the opening scene of the 1965 musical film The Sound of Music was shot. I travelled to the house where Eva Braun had lived in Munich. I went to Hiroshima to photograph the last part of the modernist rebuilding project. And to Pomerode, the most German town in Brazil. And to more than ten cities around the world to photograph buildings by Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer. And to an idyllic settlement in the Berlin forest that was built for SS officers in the 1930s. Or to the house near Vienna where the kidnapping victim Natascha Kampusch was held hostage for over eight years. Many of these examples don't seem to have much in common, but they are all (little) parts that together constitute our collective history and memory.

The exhibition at Camera Austria is curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow and is the first solo presentation of the artist in Austria. On the occasion of this exhibition a book is being published in the Edition Camera Austria with contributions by Pierre Dourthe, Frits Gierstberg, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Dan Rule, Erik van der Weijde, and Jan Wenzel (German / English / French / Dutch).