What do the walls whisper?
Pößneck | 2018 [DE]
In this photos series I document the Vogel Verlag [publishing] in Pößneck, Thüringen, trying to capture its grace and find some hints of its future story. The large-scale industrial building has stood empty for some years. Like many other industrial structures in the region, closing the factory has created a void. While the area around continues to develop, the function fluctuating as the times require, this island of an almost forgotten past has changed too - but in quite different ways. In this series of photomontages, Ive placed and blended details from throughout the building within a different setting.
All the pictures and elements were taken at the building in its myriad rooms, corridors, and workshops. What arises is a stark yet also harmonious representation of the fluid transmutation of place and time that transpires at a site of abandonment and desertion. This is subtle attempt to define the aesthetics of the building’s architecture and seek for possible renewal.
The industrial era is over indeed, and it played a major part in forming the Thuringian landscape, but it should not be left as avoid. Instead, let its memory and details be shaped anew.
*The artwork was created in the framework of “Im Niemandsland – Lost Places in Thüringen”
All the pictures and elements were taken at the building in its myriad rooms, corridors, and workshops. What arises is a stark yet also harmonious representation of the fluid transmutation of place and time that transpires at a site of abandonment and desertion. This is subtle attempt to define the aesthetics of the building’s architecture and seek for possible renewal.
The industrial era is over indeed, and it played a major part in forming the Thuringian landscape, but it should not be left as avoid. Instead, let its memory and details be shaped anew.
*The artwork was created in the framework of “Im Niemandsland – Lost Places in Thüringen”
