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January 2021
Soft Copy Hard Copy
In 2018 Stephan Keppel started collecting works and stories of Amsterdam; the city where he lives, and works. The city is constantly changing, and so are the visible, invisible, social and historic structures. In Soft Copy Hard Copy Stephan Keppel explores and organizes these structures, creating an organic index of the city. This book is part of Keppelโs ongoing research on the public space, urban structures and reproduction, and is combining his own photographs wit
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April 2020
LO SGUARDO DELLO STATO
The perspective with which the State looks at society and nature is intentionally ultra-simplifying because, to understand (and control) everything, it must inevitably compress the diversity of the territory and its population within standardized grids that are easier to manage. Reconstructing the epochal passage that led to the current configuration of power - through the establishment of maps, censuses, fixed surnames, cadastral lists, weights and unified measures ... - is essential to grasp the art of modern government, with it
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June 2019
FOXTROT GATE – CYPRUS
The book Foxtrot Gate โ Cyprusย is part of a series of publications about nations at war, or in crisis; conceived by Giovanna Silva, they tell the stories of different countries through photographs of their multifaceted landscapes. In the case of Cyprus, Silva has attempted to decipher Nicosiaโs recent past and contested present, their symbols and physical structures โ along with related erasures, which are inscribed in the landscape of the divided capital itself, and in
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