INDUSTRY_TIME_SPACE
Memory is a dog that lies down wherever it pleases.
Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (1980)
What is the importance of placing a memory?Why spend that much time trying to find the exact geographic and temporal latitudes and longitudes of the things we remember?
Steve Erickson, Days between Stations (1985)
The images in this catalogue are the result of a photographic reconnaissance. They document those industrial regions in Friedrichshafen, where they are located, which to this day decisively characterize the identity of the city. MTU, EADS, ZF Konzern, Zeppelin GmbH. The names of the industrial heavyweights make reference to a conflicting legacy, which includes utopia as well as destruction. In his images Claudio Hils exposes the scarring process associated with the continuation of the defense industry and which has largely been made a taboo subject. He tracks down the sparsely remaining relics of the past and positions them in a present that is once more defined by the dictate of these utopias. The coordinates of his tracking are industry, time, space.
Christoph Schaden
- Publication
INDUSTRIE_ZEIT_RAUM
Edition J. J. Heckenhauer, Tübingen, 2005
ISBN 3-9809619-6-6Deutscher Fotobuchpreis – shortlist 2006
- Exhibitions
- 2013
- PanoVision | Surrealistic City, Medienhaus am See, Friedrichshafen, DE (14.01. - 25.01.2013)
- 2012
- Innensichten | Außensichten – Werke von Claudio Hils und Gerlinde Miesenböck, KUNST-RAUM-AKADEMIE, Stuttgart, DE (23.01. - 29.07.2012)
- 2007
- Galeria de Exposicoes Temporarias da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PT
- Bozar Expo, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
- 2006
- Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Berlin, DE
- 2005/06
- Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, DE
- Deutscher Fotobuchpreis – shortlist 2006
- Fotografiemuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
- Forum für Fotografie, Köln, DE
- Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, DE
- Vertretung des Landes Baden-Württemberg bei der Europäischen Union, Bruxelles, BE
- Vertretung des Landes Baden-Württemberg bei der Europäischen Union, Berlin, DE
- BuchBasel, Basel, CH
- Leipziger Buchmesse, Leipzig, DE
- Stuttgarter Buchwochen, Stuttgart, DE
