“Neue Stadt” is a photograph taken in the so-called Neue Stadt Wulfen, a small town in the north of North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the few modernist planned cities that were actually built. It was conceived as an ideal city and partly realized from scratch in the 1960s and 1970s, but never lived up to its promises and expectations. The picture, the result of a research and photography project in collaboration with Frederike Wetzels, shows a concrete wall of an abandoned experimental building called “Habiflex”. Like a texture, the image refers to the original idea of the utopian project as much as it shows the ravages of time.
Neue Stadt, 2012, c-print, 125x154cm
