EXIT MAGAZINE - Issue#88
In this issue 88 of EXIT, we deal with the idea of "non-place" as if it were a double oxymoron, that terribly accurate yet volatile concept with which Marc Augé would define something that many of us saw without knowing how to clearly define: "If a place can be defined as a place of identity, relational, and historical, a space that cannot be defined as a space of identity, relational, or historical, will define a non-place".
EXIT 88 Non-Places brings together the work of up to ten photographers who, from different perspectives, are representative of the theme. One of the main dossiers is that of photographer Bransilav Kropilak, whose career includes multiple series that allow us to define the concept of "non-place", such as Garages, Gas Pumps, or Lobbies; continuing in the world of gas stations, this time abandoned, we find the work of Catalan photographer Xavier Aragonès. Airports, as great non-places, whose basic function is linked to the transit of people, are widely reflected in the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. There is also room for trains, especially through stations, in the work of Benjamin Price and the Pole Wojciech Karlinski. To the underground, to the metro tunnels of different cities around the world, we are transported by the work of Raúl Belinchón. A more conceptual or narrative dimension is found in the works of Xavier Ribas, with his series Domingos, focused on the outskirts, and his series Umbrales about the entrance doors of different banking entities; in that of Lynne Cohen, on the political dimension of the non-place presented from neutrality; that of Lukas Korschan, with a closer approach to the "commonplace"; or that of Nigel Shafran, whose stairs and supermarket conveyor belts are also linked to class issues or social customs. The aforementioned dossiers are preceded by a central text which, on this occasion, is a story by writer Jorge de Cascante, a sort of letter-format tale that subtly evokes images linked to the non-place.
In Portfolio, the section where we give space to the most interesting photographers of the new generations, we present Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos.
Editorial
Rosa Olivares. Of places, walks, memories, and ruins
Texts
Jorge de Cascante. La espiropapa (The spiro potato)
Artists central theme
Xavier Aragonès, Raúl Belinchón, Lynne Cohen, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Wojciech Karlinski, Lukas Korschan, Branislav Kropilak, Benjamin Price, Xavier Ribas, and Nigel Shafran
Portfolio artists
Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos
In this issue 88 of EXIT, we deal with the idea of "non-place" as if it were a double oxymoron, that terribly accurate yet volatile concept with which Marc Augé would define something that many of us saw without knowing how to clearly define: "If a place can be defined as a place of identity, relational, and historical, a space that cannot be defined as a space of identity, relational, or historical, will define a non-place".
EXIT 88 Non-Places brings together the work of up to ten photographers who, from different perspectives, are representative of the theme. One of the main dossiers is that of photographer Bransilav Kropilak, whose career includes multiple series that allow us to define the concept of "non-place", such as Garages, Gas Pumps, or Lobbies; continuing in the world of gas stations, this time abandoned, we find the work of Catalan photographer Xavier Aragonès. Airports, as great non-places, whose basic function is linked to the transit of people, are widely reflected in the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. There is also room for trains, especially through stations, in the work of Benjamin Price and the Pole Wojciech Karlinski. To the underground, to the metro tunnels of different cities around the world, we are transported by the work of Raúl Belinchón. A more conceptual or narrative dimension is found in the works of Xavier Ribas, with his series Domingos, focused on the outskirts, and his series Umbrales about the entrance doors of different banking entities; in that of Lynne Cohen, on the political dimension of the non-place presented from neutrality; that of Lukas Korschan, with a closer approach to the "commonplace"; or that of Nigel Shafran, whose stairs and supermarket conveyor belts are also linked to class issues or social customs. The aforementioned dossiers are preceded by a central text which, on this occasion, is a story by writer Jorge de Cascante, a sort of letter-format tale that subtly evokes images linked to the non-place.
In Portfolio, the section where we give space to the most interesting photographers of the new generations, we present Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos.
Editorial
Rosa Olivares. Of places, walks, memories, and ruins
Texts
Jorge de Cascante. La espiropapa (The spiro potato)
Artists central theme
Xavier Aragonès, Raúl Belinchón, Lynne Cohen, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Wojciech Karlinski, Lukas Korschan, Branislav Kropilak, Benjamin Price, Xavier Ribas, and Nigel Shafran
Portfolio artists
Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos
In this issue 88 of EXIT, we deal with the idea of "non-place" as if it were a double oxymoron, that terribly accurate yet volatile concept with which Marc Augé would define something that many of us saw without knowing how to clearly define: "If a place can be defined as a place of identity, relational, and historical, a space that cannot be defined as a space of identity, relational, or historical, will define a non-place".
EXIT 88 Non-Places brings together the work of up to ten photographers who, from different perspectives, are representative of the theme. One of the main dossiers is that of photographer Bransilav Kropilak, whose career includes multiple series that allow us to define the concept of "non-place", such as Garages, Gas Pumps, or Lobbies; continuing in the world of gas stations, this time abandoned, we find the work of Catalan photographer Xavier Aragonès. Airports, as great non-places, whose basic function is linked to the transit of people, are widely reflected in the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. There is also room for trains, especially through stations, in the work of Benjamin Price and the Pole Wojciech Karlinski. To the underground, to the metro tunnels of different cities around the world, we are transported by the work of Raúl Belinchón. A more conceptual or narrative dimension is found in the works of Xavier Ribas, with his series Domingos, focused on the outskirts, and his series Umbrales about the entrance doors of different banking entities; in that of Lynne Cohen, on the political dimension of the non-place presented from neutrality; that of Lukas Korschan, with a closer approach to the "commonplace"; or that of Nigel Shafran, whose stairs and supermarket conveyor belts are also linked to class issues or social customs. The aforementioned dossiers are preceded by a central text which, on this occasion, is a story by writer Jorge de Cascante, a sort of letter-format tale that subtly evokes images linked to the non-place.
In Portfolio, the section where we give space to the most interesting photographers of the new generations, we present Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos.
Editorial
Rosa Olivares. Of places, walks, memories, and ruins
Texts
Jorge de Cascante. La espiropapa (The spiro potato)
Artists central theme
Xavier Aragonès, Raúl Belinchón, Lynne Cohen, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Wojciech Karlinski, Lukas Korschan, Branislav Kropilak, Benjamin Price, Xavier Ribas, and Nigel Shafran
Portfolio artists
Juan Brenner, Marcus DeSieno, Syjuco Stephanie, Andrea Torres Balaguer, and Sander Vos