it's better to build than to fade away
Title: part #3 / Moss, Norway
Year: 2004
'it's better to build than to fade away' is an ongoing project by Oskar Lindström and me. Read more...
Produced with support from Momentum, the Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art
Carried out for Momentum 04, curated by Per Gunnar Tverbakk and Caroline Corbetta.
Read the catalogue text by Halvor Haugen


in short

Part #3 documents a suburb in between completion and moving-in. Through digital manipulation we attempted to create a utopian image that reveals how such neighborhoods are build based on generic, globalized formats.


Click picture to enlarge - the photograph left, the billboard right