GoSee loves coffee-table books: Andréas Lang ‘Broken Memories’  - visual archeology about recollection and history in Turkey (Kerber Publishing)

Since his scholarship and stay at the Tarabya Cultural Academy, Andréas Lang has explored the topics of recollection and history in Turkey. In his photos in ‘Broken Memories’, he reflects on the disappearance, the discontinuity and the multiple layers of historical writings as well as the overwriting that leaves visible traces of a collective memory long since rendered invisible.

He describes his work as visual archaeology that exposes the many layers of history and of mythology, as well as of the present day. The images appear like a scenery or film set, as if suspended between the past, present and future. In this manner, they become a realm of the imagination and its projections; sometimes blending or colliding with immanent social, political and ecological realities. Following a phase of intense research, the artist travels to the individual places to photograph and employs his visual method in ‘Broken Memories’ by exploring recollection and history in Turkey, written and overwritten. He focuses on the places with links to the later Ottoman Empire, the Armenian heritage, the 1915 genocide, and the beginning of the republic. What is remembered and what is left to be forgotten.

Andréas Lang’s ‘Broken Memories’ is on display as an exhibition at Depo Istanbul, curated by Refik Akyüz and Serdar Darendeliler from Geniş Açı Project Office [GAPO]. The book to go with it is now appearing at Kerber Publishing.

Andréas Lang began working as an artist as a freelance photographer in Paris. Since 1995, he has been doing so on a non-commissioned basis, including video and film documentaries. With his images, he particularly explores the stories of places which remain hidden, whether they are of historical, mythological or personal nature. In 1999, he started a long-term project about European landscapes. From 2006 to 2007, he created his series entitled ‘Eclipse’ in Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Syria and Turkey. Then in 2008/10, further stays in Cairo and Damascus followed for new photo and video works. Since 2011, he has pursued a project about (post-) colonialism in Central Africa based on research and historical material.

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

 

Andréas Lang 'Broken Memories' (Kerber Verlag)

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