INTERSTICES—Julie Chovin

Taken during walks in Poland, this series of photographs is not only about urbanism and architecture, but also speaks to inverse, empty spaces -- spaces between the buildings, around them. Not just their easily perceived forms, but their surfaces and density.

Postindustrial environment, ruins, construction sites and empty billboards proliferate in this selection of images. They are no longer commercially viable spaces; now empty, frozen in a temporal state, they wait to be demolished or restored, to be re-constructed…re-imagined.

I observed new inhabitants taking over the spaces, while detecting the stories and histories these spaces continued to embody. More than mere documentation, my photographs contribute to the city’s evolving imaginary.

All Images: Courtesy of the artist

Julie chovine  is a French visual artist, based in Berlin, working mainly in France, Germany and Poland, and  interested in the relationship of power in landscape and differences between reality and fiction.