Christa Ziegler has been photographing cities and megacities since 2007. Fragments of this long-term photographic project have been exhibited repeatedly in various forms at message salon, including in the shop windows of Perla-Mode and on a billboard on the Uraniawiese in Zurich as part of “Gasträume 2011’” In the current exhibition, Christa Ziegler presents two publications and a selection of original photographs resulting from her work with the extensive material. “Polis – Essays on the City/Talking about Cities” is a collection of edited newspaper pages; in their unity they represent an independent work. The author Isabel Zürcher and Christa Ziegler have invited international authors to write literary texts based on the photographs. The artist thus presents a further formal and content-related possibility in dealing with her photography.
Christa Ziegler “Polis – Essays zur Stadt/ Talking about Cities”. With texts by Isabel Zürcher, Al Imfeld and Mandu dos Santos Pinto, Khaled Al-Khamissi, Kaiwan Mehta, Monica Udler Cromberg and Peter Suter, approx. 64 pages, newspaper, offset printing, risography, xerography printing. Edition Fink, Zurich, 2013
The second part of the publication “Polis”, a photo book with around 1000 images from 18 cities, is available to view and order at message salon: Christa Ziegler “Polis – Bilder von Städten/ Cities in Images”. Photography Christa Ziegler. Approx 672 pages, 60 CHF/ 48 EUR, Edition Fink, Zurich, to be published approx end of September 2013