Center, 2021—24
Shopping centres have several purposes, and this includes a meeting place. Before the shopping centre people used to gather in marketplaces and town centres, today this happens in shopping malls. In contrast to traditional markets, malls are no longer places of social or political exchange, but exclusively regulated places for the primary purpose of consumption. Dealing with malls leads to the question of whether and with which photographic means it could be possible to alienate the functional and regulatory character of these places or whether every photo that is created in these spaces ultimately must be affirmative?
The series of photographs are characterized by the atmosphere created by the materiality of the architecture: the sometimes hectic flickering and glow, bright colours and shiny materials are reflected on the faces and bodies of the people portrayed. If this atmosphere originally encouraged customers to consume, it serves as a framework for a photographic shooting situation in which the flow of consumption is to be consciously interrupted.
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