After Howl

After Howl is a series of 75 photographs made as a journal in the same room, at different hours and throughout different days during one entire year. Inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, a manifesto where the values and morals of the post-war generation are questioned, giving way to an entire renascence process, the photographs are an intimate expression that questions the status quo. The project came to life when moving from a flat into a family hotel, where I stayed in a tiny bedroom without bathroom and had my daily shower in different rooms. I realized how enormously different meanings the white sheets could have in peoples’ lives, how much meaning they have along the ages and independently from race, religion, age, or gender. After Howl is a tireless experiment that explores the boundaries and limits of the photographic medium, the possibility of poetic photographing as an existentialist gesture. While poetry is the spiritual point of departure that reflects on the relationships with the visual and the verbal, the photographic gesture reforms hollow perspectives on time, place, identity, and subjectivity.

Inkjet prints on recycled newspaper, various dimensions, 2016. The series was exhibited in August 3-9, 2016 at Galerie am Lindenhof in Zurich, as curated by Sabin Bors.