Before and After

2014/ongoing - photo installation

b/w laser print on A3 paper, variable size

A photo series printed on A3 80g standard copy paper in black and white, consisting of more than 300 different photographs, which are copied until they fill all the walls of the room or the area to be covered. The photo series documents vacant business premises in various cities (Stockholm, Seoul, Linz, Graz, San Francisco, Seattle, Budapest, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tehran, ...). Premises of small shops, large shopping chains, cafés, offices, restaurants, hairdressers,... some have just been vacated, others are about to reopen, others will be closed forever or have been abandoned for years.

Since 2014, the artist has been collecting these transit spaces with his analogue camera on his travels to various countries. The images show portraits of being and becoming, a moment that lies in between and leaves much open for what is yet to come.

 

 

Idea, Concept and Realisation: Stefan Tiefengraber