La Ville Invisible

Coming November 2024

»A single building’s history can reveal layers of the city that once was, showing how spaces constantly evolve. New cities emerge on top of the old, creating a complex landscape of urban plateaus.« (from the interview with Ivan Vartanian)

Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been working on »Cartographie Dynamique« since 2017. »Cartographie dynamique« is a virtual network connecting cities in Japan, Germany, France, China or India with the distinctive photographic works created in each location, often focussing on the transformation of the city.
The current chapter, ‘La Ville Invisible’, deals with the question of whether major events such as the Olympic Games or EXPO can be accelerators of urban change. To what extent they contribute to changing the understanding of private and public space. Do ideas of coming together, exchange and sporting competition still play a central role or are the arenas and pavilions just more ruins of the future?
The book contains images from Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Seoul and Sarajevo taken since 2014.

Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber.
La Ville Invisible. 2024
312 pages, 20 x 28 cm, 148 photographs
Softcover, Ed. of 300 copies
with a text by Jochen Becker (engl.)
and an interview by  Ivan Vartanian (engl.)