textures from a place

where I used to call home

*inspired by the name of Edith Torony’s painting,

go check her out she is amazing!

A photography project that focuses on urban peripheries and the objects that were thrown away or not integrated in the view. The foundation of my project lies in the photographs I capture during walks in gentrified areas or areas in the danger of being gentrified such as Wedding, Moabit, Pankow, Neukölln, and Kreuzberg.

Berlin is renowned for its positive qualities as well as its reputation for being dirty. Rather than merely perceiving this as a failure of the city, the concept of “rubbish” and its correspondent in state agenda, waste management, emerges as a form of urban exclusion. To highlight this exclusion, I adopt an archaeological approach to rubbish within the urban periphery. I focus on groups of objects that are out-of- use, discarded, and abandoned in the city.

After a selection process, I isolate the part that best describes the reality clash in the photo. Then I edit that part of the photo by using digital tools, firstly, to accen- tuate the contrast between what is considered the waste and the city. Secondly, to create a new ‘whole’, from that isolated part, to let abandoned objects invade the fabric of urban reality. This process helps me to turn my practice into a counter attack to our understanding of hygene and exclusion of what is regarded as rubbish.