Laurence Rasti – Wall as Horizon
Photographic Survey Neuchâtel 2023-2024
- Features a collaborative artistic investigation of a prison environment, to which the portrayed inmates also contributed themselves
- Offers a deeper understanding of who is imprisoned in Switzerland and for what reason
- The topic of prison and imprisonment, between social taboo and the challenges of documenting a closed environment, is often neglected yet at the same time of major social significance
- Laurence Rasti’s previous book There Are No Homosexuals in Iran (2017) gained wide attention
Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself with the inmates of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterised by precarity and exile. In conversation with prisoners, researchers, and scholars, she questions a concept of imprisonment apparently geared towards poverty rather than crime. Rasti’s artistic research is based on a collaborative approach in which the inmates themselves also take pictures using pinhole cameras and engage in transcribing interviews.
The focus of Rasti’s photographic investigation is on the people deprived of their freedom. It reflects on the correlation of prison, precarity, and migration: topics that, in the case of a prison like La Promenade, are closely linked and of great social significance.
Text in English and French.
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- ISBN
- 9783858818942
- Published
- 18th Dec 2024
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United States, Canada, and Japan
- Size
- 320 mm x 235 mm
- Pages
- 144 Pages
- Illustrations
- 100 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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