Moll 31
Wiebke Loeper
2005
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“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”   With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos ...
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Moll 31
Wiebke Loeper
2005
Tübingen and Berlin: Edition J.J. Heckenhauer
Unpaginated [80 pages]
19.5 × 15.2 cm
Edition of 750; numbered 221/750

“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.
Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”


 


With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos in every sense of the word – Wiebke Loeper begins her intimate investigation into memory and the layers of time.


 


The book unfolds as a photographic study of family archives and newly made photographs, creating diptychs that bring together images of her childhood home, an apartment in a tower block in East Berlin, with Loeper’s own photographs of the same building, abandoned and falling into decay, taken thirty years later.


 


The personal and collective memory of the East Berlin building at Mollstraße 31 intertwines in Annett Gröschner’s concluding essay: “Memory needs people who hold onto it, otherwise it ceases to exist. A house built of concrete. A house built of air. A house built of paper.”

Tübingen and Berlin: Edition J.J. Heckenhauer
Unpaginated [80 pages]
19.5 × 15.2 cm
Edition of 750; numbered 221/750

“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.
Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”

 

With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos in every sense of the word – Wiebke Loeper begins her intimate investigation into memory and the layers of time.

 

The book unfolds as a photographic study of family archives and newly made photographs, creating diptychs that bring together images of her childhood home, an apartment in a tower block in East Berlin, with Loeper’s own photographs of the same building, abandoned and falling into decay, taken thirty years later.

 

The personal and collective memory of the East Berlin building at Mollstraße 31 intertwines in Annett Gröschner’s concluding essay: “Memory needs people who hold onto it, otherwise it ceases to exist. A house built of concrete. A house built of air. A house built of paper.”

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“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.
Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”

 

With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos in every sense of the word – Wiebke Loeper begins her intimate investigation into memory and the layers of time.

 

The book unfolds as a photographic study of family archives and newly made photographs, creating diptychs that bring together images of her childhood home, an apartment in a tower block in East Berlin, with Loeper’s own photographs of the same building, abandoned and falling into decay, taken thirty years later.

 

The personal and collective memory of the East Berlin building at Mollstraße 31 intertwines in Annett Gröschner’s concluding essay: “Memory needs people who hold onto it, otherwise it ceases to exist. A house built of concrete. A house built of air. A house built of paper.”

Tübingen and Berlin: Edition J.J. Heckenhauer
Unpaginated [80 pages]
19.5 × 15.2 cm
Edition of 750; numbered 221/750

“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.
Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”

 

With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos in every sense of the word – Wiebke Loeper begins her intimate investigation into memory and the layers of time.

 

The book unfolds as a photographic study of family archives and newly made photographs, creating diptychs that bring together images of her childhood home, an apartment in a tower block in East Berlin, with Loeper’s own photographs of the same building, abandoned and falling into decay, taken thirty years later.

 

The personal and collective memory of the East Berlin building at Mollstraße 31 intertwines in Annett Gröschner’s concluding essay: “Memory needs people who hold onto it, otherwise it ceases to exist. A house built of concrete. A house built of air. A house built of paper.”

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“Das Haus ist unser erstes All.
Es ist wirklich ein Kosmos.”

 

With this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, in which he describes the house as our first universe – a real cosmos in every sense of the word – Wiebke Loeper begins her intimate investigation into memory and the layers of time.

 

The book unfolds as a photographic study of family archives and newly made photographs, creating diptychs that bring together images of her childhood home, an apartment in a tower block in East Berlin, with Loeper’s own photographs of the same building, abandoned and falling into decay, taken thirty years later.

 

The personal and collective memory of the East Berlin building at Mollstraße 31 intertwines in Annett Gröschner’s concluding essay: “Memory needs people who hold onto it, otherwise it ceases to exist. A house built of concrete. A house built of air. A house built of paper.”

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