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Announcement of the socially hardened
When the photographer Arwed Messmer gives his recently published book of photographs the title “Deep Debris Clearance”, this is accompanied by the feeling of a cleansing – albeit in favor of a gloomy perspective. Rubble is ruins in an advanced state of dissolution. They finally disintegrate and merge into the landscape, but, as one can assume from Messmer’s work, they have a long lasting effect. Only when they are cleared away do they disappear as a drawing archive. Go to Article