
Georg Aerni - Silent Transition
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9783039420742
- Specifications
- Hardcover
192 pages
New Works
166 color and black-and-white plates
Texts by Peter Pfrunder and Nadine Olonetzky, essay by Sabine von Fischer
Transformation processes are the focus of these new photographs: plastic greenhouses that have annexed whole swathes of land for agricultural mass production, residential houses built overnight on the city outskirts without construction machines and literally noiselessly. The lens turns to olive trees grown over centuries into figures full of character, creepers conquering leftover spaces between high-rises and motorways, and mighty rock faces being gnawed by erosion. Merging art and documentation, the images make the signs of change the object of contemplative observation, asking challenging questions about the handling of natural resources and the regenerative force of nature.