With Wondelgemse Meersen photographer Stephanie Kiwitt documents in countless pictures a wasteland, that usually goes unnoticed, but is found in almost every post-industrialized city. The fallow land has become overgrown; there had once been allotment gardens, also Romanies had settled down here for a while. Finding all sorts of traces, but no apparent links to their causes, gives the area an apocalyptic atmosphere: old Coke-bottles in the mud, a destroyed computer, all kinds of garbage, a kid’s purple tape recorder, carbonated wood from an accommodation; but nature is striking back, grass grows over the trash, a tree tries to burst a fence. With this publication she sketches an imaginary place and in doing so, touches the limits of documentary form, without actually documenting the area. Despite the quantity of photographs, the area remains unknown and inaccessible. Kiwitt’s images reveal much more the process of photographing itself than the reality of the marshes of Wondelgem.
406 color plates
In association with the School of Arts Ghent
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