Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself with the inmates of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterised by precarity and exile. In conversation with prisoners, researchers, and scholars, she questions a concept of imprisonment apparently geared towards poverty rather than crime. Rasti's artistic research is based on a collaborative approach in which the inmates themselves also take pictures using pinhole cameras and engage in transcribing interviews.
The focus of Rasti's photographic investigation is on the people deprived of their freedom. It reflects on the correlation of prison, precarity, and migration: topics that, in the case of a prison like La Promenade, are closely linked and of great social significance.
Text in English and French.
| ISBN: | 9783858818942 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2024 |
| Author: | Laurence Rasti |
| Publisher: | Scheidegger & Spiess an imprint of Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 152 pages |
| Series: | Scheidegger & Spiess |
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Photographs: collections Offenders |
Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself with the inmates of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterised by precarity and exile.
Laurence Rasti - Wall as Horizon features in the following genres: Photographs: collections, Offenders
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Laurence Rasti - Wall as Horizon was written by Laurence Rasti and published by Scheidegger & Spiess an imprint of Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Laurence Rasti - Wall as Horizon has 152 pages
Yes it is part of Scheidegger & Spiess series
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