Caves and Spaceships
Allemagne
2018Artiste Invité
The cave is a frequently represented character in myths, legends, and cults. Men and women used to live in caves before they started building their own private spaces. The cave symbolises the archetypal human home. With Caves & Spaceships, Jewgeni Roppel studied the junction between nature, which is originally primitive, and architecture after the fall of the Soviet-Union, under President Saakashvili in Georgia from 2004 to 2013. Jewgeni Roppel observes the contrast between the shapes of primitive nature and futuristic architecture that, as of today, remains a symbol of modernity in eastern Europe.
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About the artist
Jewgeni Roppel was born in Kazakhstan in 1983. He now lives in Hamburg, in Germany, where he works as a photographer and as an editor in chief for Ostlook. His work was recently published in Werde Magazin, and his project entitled Longing for the Light was selected within the Voies Off during the Rencontres d’Arles in 2017.