PERIPHEREN

»Peripheren« relates the French capital to the Ruhr region and its imagined centre, the Zollverein colliery, often referred to as the ‘Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr region’. Neither the Eiffel Tower nor the colliery are at the centre of their photographs.
Rather, in their experimental arrangement, Stuke and Sieber have juxtaposed the photographs taken along the Périphérique in Paris with places that refer to the Ruhr region.

In their work, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber often deal with questions about the structures of cities and the connection between urban planning and social boundaries. Their photographs show a particular interest in marginalised regions and districts or those that are stigmatised in the collective perception. Their work is less committed to the individual image. Rather, Stuke and Sieber work in series and sequences; they layer, mix and link material in order to create multi-layered associations.

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Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber.
Paripheren. 2022
published by Verlag Kettler & Böhm Kobayashi
with a text by Kerstin Meincke (engl./dt.)
244 pages, 20 x 28 cm,
120 photographs, Softcover
Ed. of 500 copies