Christa Ziegler has been photographing cities and mega-cities since 2007. Excerpts from this long-term photographic project have been exhibited repeatedly in various forms at the message salon, including in the shop windows of Perla-Mode and on the Urania yard in Zurich as part of “Gasträume 2011”.
In the salon, on the first floor of Perla-Mode, Christa Ziegler presents “Polis”, a two-part publication resulting from her work with the extensive material, which will be published by edition fink. Christa Ziegler and the author Isabel Zürcher have invited international authors to write literary texts based on the photographs. During the exhibition, the first part of the publication “Polis”, the freshly printed text booklet, will be available free of charge.
In addition to the publication, Christa Ziegler is also showing a series of new pictures in the message salon with arrangements of photographs of the cities discussed in the booklet. The edited sheets represent an independent work in their unity; the artist presents here a further formal and content-related possibility in dealing with her photography.
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 – 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 print, Zurich 2013.
Christa Ziegler: Polis – Bilder von Städten/ Cities in Images.
Photography Christa Ziegler. approx. 672 pages, approx. 1000 illustrations. 60 CHF/ 48 EUR, Zurich 2013. (To be published approx. end of September 2013.)