Arkitektur og design

LOVE HOTEL is a collection of photographs showing Japanese Love Hotels facades. The project was produced in 2023 during a road trip between Tokyo and Shikoku Island. Photographer Francois Prost paints a vernacular portrait of Japan, made up of ordinary roadsides, faded signs and colorful facades, far from the usual cliches.

This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It also scrutinizes the curatorial practices that have influenced the interpretation and display of Chinese art amidst the advance of media technology and heritage engagement in the twenty-first century. Situated within ongoing debates on global art history, the volume is inclusive of multiple geo-cultural perspectives, and the dynamic practices that relate art tradition or heritage to more universal spatiotemporal art experience and engagement. It extends the understanding of exhibitions of Chinese art not only as multiple historical processes culturally and politically negotiated and contested by contending forces and diverse actors in the region, but also as creative interventions to engage people around the globe in the present.

With more than 8 million users per day, Tokyo's subways are a pulsating aorta supplying the city with life. Since his student days, Masakazu Murakami has been capturing the scenes unfolding underground as a fellow passenger.Murakami kept shooting as Japan entered its long recession after the burst of the Bubble, the people at the other end of his gaze seemingly lost in a city without exits, drifting through Tokyo's subway system as if it were an endless sea.

Daido Moriyama's "Paris Plus" is a small hardcover publication containing 311 images within its 504 pages. Published in 2013 by Getsuyosha, "Paris Plus" is a visually condensed photographic narrative of several visits Moriyama has made to the city in between the years 1988, 1990 and 2003. The images of Paris bound within the pages of this photobook is as much a documentation of the city's people and landscapes as much as it is a remnant of Moriyama's fragmented experiences and engagements with the city throughout his life. The black and white images run through from page to page, echoing the shutter's lens as much as it does the photographing eye. What is evident within this small hardcover publication is a record of a series of moments, capturing a visualized experience of a city space and its individuals caught within movement and frozen within the exposed black and white film within Moriyama's frame.

Bildliche Szenen aus Indien sind in deutschen, englischen und amerikanischen Missionsjournalen sowie erweckter und evangelikaler Literatur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zu sehen. Diese Darstellungen erzählen meist mehr über die westlichen Rezipienten als über das dargestellte Land. Das vorliegende Buch analysiert Holzschnitte im Evangelischen Heidenboten und der Halbbatzenkollekte, die beide von der Basler Mission herausgegeben wurden. Zwischen 1846 und 1870 waren diese Grafiken durch eine emblematische bzw. sinnbildliche Leseweise geprägt. Textliche und bildliche Strategien halfen dem europäischen Leser dabei, eine Brücke zu den imaginierten Menschen aus den Missionsgebieten zu schlagen. Der westliche Leser wurde durch Darstellungen von christlichen und nichtchristlichen Indern zu einem frommen Lebensstil ermahnt. Diese Bilder wurden im Rahmen europäischer Darstellungstraditionen von westlichen Grafikern konzipiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt die Bedeutung biblischer Geschichten und christlicher Ikonografie für die Darstellung Indiens im 19. Jahrhundert.