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Anastasiia is een liefdesverklaring van een studente uit Kiev aan haar buitenlandse geliefde én haar thuisland Oekraïne. Door parallelle stromen van beeld en tekst wordt een dialoog gereconstrueerd tussen Anastasiia en haar geliefde, van een periode

Panama’s aanwezigheid in het collectieve geheugen blijft vaak beperkt tot het beroemde kanaal, de exotische landschappen en de recente politieke geschiedenis. In In the Heat presenteert Arturo Soto echter een subjectieve verbeelding van Panama’s sted

In september 2011 is Lynn Alleva Lilley met haar man en twee kinderen naar Amman in Jordanië verhuisd. Ver weg van haar geboorteland en van haar vader, die op dat moment ziek was, probeerde ze een thuis te maken voor haar gezin in deze onbekende stad

Part 1: All doubt as to the existence of arsenic eating is removed by the present experiments.Part 2: On the historical encounter with arsenic-containing minerals in general and the practice of arsenic eating in Styria in particular.

In 2016 the Province of Noord-Holland and the Noord-Hollands Archive commissioned Natascha Libbert to photograph the sea locks at IJmuiden. Redevelopment of the locks between 2016 and 2022 will facilitate the passage of increasingly large freight and

Event Horizon is constructed as a fictional narrative that immerses the reader in a nocturnal and mysterious atmosphere of anticipation. Instead of the carefree, light-heartedness with which one would usually associate childhood, Roland (BE) shows th

For Watering My Horse, Xiaoxiao Xu (CN/NL) followed the lives of the people along the foot of the Great Wall of China, a road trip of 25,000 kilometers. She takes us to the section of the wall from the Ming dynasty and to the ruins of the older parts

The Essential shows us the many ways in which our lives are unique, but also the similarities we share despite our differences. Since 2010 artists Martin and Inge Riebeek (NL) collect stories from people around the world for their video art project T

In Some of You Killed Luisa, Valeria Cherchi (IT) attempts to decode the complex structure of the kidnapping phenomenon that has crossed her homeland, the Italian island of Sardinia. Between the 1960s and the 1990s almost 200 people were kidnapped fo

Why do we tend to pick up stones? Throw them in the water or take them as a souvenir of a trip? We seem to want to connect to earth this way, or perhaps even to eternity. It is precisely this connection that Claudia den Boer was looking for when she

You Know I Am Not There is a line from the song Know by English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. He was well-known to a small circle of fans in his time and died in 1974 at the young age of 26. Now, Drake has achieved true cult status and is seen as one

Hades was a powerful god in classical Greek mythology. His ‘Helmet of Darkness’ enabled him and the other gods to be invisible during their sometimes-ambiguous quests. Therefore, the helmet became proverbial for those who conceal their true nature...

The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver is a collection of photographs and notes on the surroundings of remote Siberian roads and towns. Presented as an archive from a truck driver named Ivan Putnik, the photographs are actually made by variou

Since World War II, the construction of mass tourist locations has been unceasing. Within just half a century, the sun drenched coastlines of Southern Europe were transformed into a global tourist destination. The resulting agglomeration of overdevel

Flisvos is a Greek word meaning “the soft sound of a small wave gently hitting the shore”. When visiting the Greek island of Corfu in the winter of 2015, Mergaerts (BE) noticed that, in spite of the cold, many people were swimming at various places a

On Stalin’s order of 16 December 1944, an estimated 70,000 ethnic Germans in Romania were deported to Soviet forced labour camps as a form of World War II reparations. Many deportees died from the harsh labour conditions in freezing temperatures and

Novogen focuses on the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products such as medicines and vaccines. Through the investigation of the industrialised farming of the Novogen White L

A Certain Logic of Expectations proposes a counter-narrative of the British city of Oxford that resists the visual imperatives of its ancient university. For the past five years, Mexican photographer Arturo Soto explored the longstanding division bet

What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Ground Truth is a story about the act of seeing, and observes the evolution of visual technology in conversation with our perception and surroundings. A group of scientists set out to approa

In the 17th century, the citizens of Oberammergau made a covenant with God. If he halted the plague, they would reenact The Passion of Christ every ten years for eternity. When the deaths ceased, in 1634, the villagers fulfilled their promise and the

L.A. Vedute by Thomas Locke Hobbs (US) is a documentary study of domestic architecture in the city of Los Angeles. Standing on the property line of two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, the space in between reminded Hobbs of a painting: Th

April 12, 2018: Day Zero, the day that the whole city of Cape Town would run out of water. The countdown to Day Zero was supposed to be a countdown to chaos. Zindzi Zwietering (NL) spent two months in the city to document the crisis.Bron reflects on

How can we visualise people’s state of mind in times of confusion and transformation?Some Way Out of Here by Jos Jansen (NL) explores a new and different way to represent the uncertainty of the era we currently live in. He sought the limits of lens-b

If money cannot buy happiness, what drives people to participate in a lottery? And what effect does (almost) winning have on someone’s life, or that of the people around them? Cécile Hupin and Katherine Longly set out to compare dreams with reality b

With ‘Vital Mud’, Dutch artist Hiske Altena explores the theory that life on Earth once began in clay. In the 1980s, her uncle, now a retired geologist, found an unusual stone that rattled. Within this stone, he discovered organic-looking structures

After World War II, President Juan Perón of Argentina had Germans with particular military and technological expertise secretly smuggled into the country. Among them was the Austrian-born scientist Ronald Richter, who convinced Perón about the feasib

For both Jo Kruger (1914–1983) and Rob Hootsmans (1962) the architecture of the Courthouse in Zwolle, the Netherlands, was a long time in the making. Kruger began in 1963 with his project for a combined district and subdistrict court, which took four

Een evocatief fotoboek met drie essays over de transformatie van het negentiende-eeuwse Fort Hoofddorp, onderdeel van de Stelling van Amsterdam. De strategische interventies van architect Serge Schoemaker zijn in beeld gebracht door Max Hart Nibbrig

An evocative photo book with three essays documenting the careful transformation of the nineteenth-century Fort Hoofddorp, part of the Amsterdam Defence Line. The strategic interventions of architect Serge Schoemaker are captured in the photos of M

Spaarndammerhart in Amsterdam is designed by the architectural offices of Korth Tielens and Marcel Lok_Architect, artist Martijn Sandberg, and the landscape architects of DS Landschapsarchitecten. Photography of Max Hart Nibbrig, Dennis De Smet, and

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guat

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s pract

Boek Tupac Biggie, geschreven door Dana Lixenberg, uitgegeven door Idea Books B.V., Fotografie, film, video als kunstvormen

This volume is published on the occasion of Batia Suter’s exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland. Suter focuses on her ever-expanding archive of scanned landscape images, which has already played an important role in her earlier publications.

The legacy of the world-famous surrealist is summarised by Magritte expert Julie Waseige, who made a selection of no less than 400 images from an oeuvre of thousands of artworks. Naturally the book shows his most important and well-known pieces, but

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance. Famous for his serene and harmonious series of Madonnas and his work at the Vatican Palace, he was an extremely in