Paris, 8 Dec 2018—La Ville Lumière
by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
Text: Florian Ebner
Copy and paste the link to flip through the book on vimeo please
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/651646320
[…] The Paris streets, as captured by Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke on December 8, 2018 and entitled La Ville Lumière, are incorporated into an extended series of maps: “Cartographie dynamique” is a virtual network connecting cities in Japan, Germany, France, and China—and soon India as well—with the distinctive photographic works created in each location. Thematic filters are added into the mix, among them “Protest,” “Anarchists,” “Olympia,” “Expo,” or “Péripherique.”
These specify some of the unique features of these cities as well as comparable structural elements that they share, which act, for the most part, as catalysts for revolutionary urbanistic developments.
The organization of the “Cartographie dynamique” as a network gives the desultoriness of Sieber & Stuke’s photographic dérives new possibilities of comparison and grants their repeating structures a logical inevitability. The cartography even generates ideas for new ways of mapping urban spaces […]
La Ville Lumière falls sequentially between other works that were made in Paris and the suburbs to the north of the city, such as Aulnay-sous-Bois and Aubervilliers. Caught between factory closures and imminent gentrification, these urban spaces have been turned into Zones urbaines sensibles, sensitive urban zones in which social conflicts have already vented themselves in overt violence.
Even if today, in a globalized and automated world, the causes of social disruption can be attributed more and more to the invisible mechanisms of economic and political processes, they find visible expression in the physical world of our cities. La Ville Lumière is thus just one act in Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber’s photographic fieldwork, another key in their cartographie dynamique,
20 × 28 cm. 226 pages.
ISBN 979-10-94060-33-9.
A Boehm Kobayashi and Éditions GwinZegal Joint.