Jiajia Zhang: If Every Day Were a Holiday, Towns Would Be More Mysterious

Jiajia Zhang: If Every Day Were a Holiday, Towns Would Be More MysteriousIf Every Day Were a Holiday, Towns Would Be More Mysterious examines time as a referential quantity for understanding our world. Already in its title, the publication formulates a hypothetical scenario that deals with the division of time and the associated effects on localities. Time as a division into units, into working hours and leisure days, for example, but also time as a lived experience. Especially in view of the pandemic, we have been moving

The book concludes with a text collage resulting from a conversation with Stephan Kunz on artistic questions in this process

and reapplied to achieve a specific visual effect

consists of an as yet unseen series of hundreds of note-like iPhone photos of advertising in the public realm

Calling himself a “Fotografiker”

manifesting the artist’s intention to show the motifs as subjects

2019–ongoing)

The Waiting Room by Danish artist KROW is an intuitively guided study of religious and archetypical imagery and their unison with the physical world in which we parade

but they’re a tool of construction and communication

The book features two additional texts: Flame Lix* by David Bennewith and Panoptics by Paul Gangloff

The main work Masa (English: Table) refers to the Treaty of Lausanne

Here are some examples: Looking at the book’s images (which used to be PDFs

is a visual documentation of all written forms of language (inscriptions