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May 22, 2004
By Halvor Haugen
Lindström and van Berkum's work can be seen as a temporary photographic monument to a kind of macroeconomic decisive moment - the moment when one more bit of a local cultural landscape is parcelled out as a picturesque idyll.
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May 22, 2004
By Halvor Haugen
Lindström and van Berkum's work can be seen as a temporary photographic monument to a kind of macroeconomic decisive moment - the moment when one more bit of a local cultural landscape is parcelled out as a picturesque idyll.
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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.
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.
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
Click picture to enlarge - the photograph left, the billboard right