{"product_id":"wall-as-horizon-laurence-rasti","title":"Wall as Horizon (Laurence Rasti)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaurence Rasti photographs to change lives. Her survey of the La Promenade detention facility in La Chaux-de-Fonds serves as a case study for more general questions about the challenges of confinement. It was important to her that those detained be able to play an active part in recording their experiences. Their handling of pinhole boxes transforms the ambient light into photographic traces that are as surprising as they are moving.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThe harshness of concrete as a barrier to the tradition of prison graffiti challenged the artist to invent an equivalent means of expression, capable of relaying outside the walls the striking testimonies gathered within them. In harnessing the genre of portraiture, to which everyone could lend themselves freely, the exchange of glances, accepted and refused in equal measure, solicits empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eA contribution by Luca Gnaedinger and an interview with Federica Martini frame this sensitive, conceptually rigorous and powerful artistic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLaurence Rasti\u003c\/em\u003e, born in 1990, graduated as a photographer and visual artist from ECAL in Lausanne and HEAD - Genève. Her work focuses mainly on Switzerland, where she researches restrictive migration policies and their instruments of control. She also teaches in the photography program at EDHEA in Sion, Switzerland.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 144 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63771561820509,"sku":"K097399334","price":24.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9739933400001A.jpg?v=1773026067","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/wall-as-horizon-laurence-rasti","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}