GREENHOUSE TERRITORIES

WS110 (coming soon)
Valentin Bansac

The Netherlands is the second exporter of agricultural goods in the world after the United States. For such a small and densely populated country, this means radical and technologically innovative farming. The greenhouse is the tool and the archetype of this new agriculture, a climate controlled environment where plants grow in optimized conditions within a foreign environment.

The Westland is located in South Holland and is referred to as the greenhouse capital of the Netherlands. In a country where half of the land is used for agriculture, it hosts extensive areas of repetitive and overscaled glass buildings. This series observes the manifestation of the future of agricultural production, an anti-urban landscape that produces food and flowers in industrial quantities with artificial light. 






UNHOMED

WS109 (coming soon)
Sepideh Farvardin

“ When I wander around cities that I have not visited before, my thoughts get entangled with details that skip my eyes even in my hometowns. And it is at that moment when I embark on an intense journey of observation. Walking in the streets of Europe as a newcomer, my eyes began to follow objects that seemed left behind. Belongings which seemed to have been forgotten on streets and alleys. In reflection, I discovered, beneath this returning occurrence, a mutual condition between myself and my photograph subjects; a sense of displacement and lack of belonging. I have deep solidarity with a pair of red high-heels which are sitting under the corner of a letterbox or a suitcase with no destination.

In the form of an ever-growing archive, the project has become a collective portrait of outcast often melancholic artefacts. My irrational solidarity with these objects has become the driving force of a worldwide search for belongings which appear misplaced, disowned or positioned out of sight. ”




BEIJING OUTLINE

WS108 (coming soon)
Anna Pierotello

“ After years of commuting across Beijing, and encountering millions of people in thousands of trips, I started wondering, where do they all come from? Where do they live? I knew that Beijing was big, but how big? Where does the city even stop?
I set out on a journey to find out. I knew that they were planning to build another ring around the city, paving the way to a megalopolis with the coastal south eastern Tianjin, so I guessed the train lines would probably be the best place to start.

The scale of the city was nearly incomprehensible. Almost impossible to describe. Each trip to the end of Beijing was like a voyage to another world. And because I spent so many hours and travelled so many kilometers crossing the city, I decided to capture moments.

This is a book about where Beijing ends. It is an exploration to find out what the city looks like at the end of each of its metropolitan arteries. It is a report that takes into account time and distance. It is a collection of images captured throughout the winter of 2017. ”






POSUTOMODAN

WS107 (coming soon)
Gianni Villa

ポストモダ, pronounced POSUTOMODAN, is the japanese term to name the postmodernist movement. It’s also the name of this book, a personal research made between 2018 and 2019, in search for postmodern buildings from Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, as well as a collection of japanese songs from 1986 to 1991, all produced during the japanese asset price bubble.