Lost in Metropolis
Lost in Metropolis is a poetic-dystopian exploration of the modern city as both a space of longing and a latent threat. Between glass façades and concrete canyons, floods of light and zones of shadow, an atmospherically dense narrative unfolds—probing orientation, identity, and the fragile relationship between human beings and the urban environment.
Through fragmentary imagery and rhythmic sequences of language, the text shapes a portrait of a metropolis that both fascinates and consumes. Architecture becomes a symbol of ascent and alienation; streets and squares turn into stages for inner states of being. The German and English passages intertwine to form a polyphonic textual body that opens an experiential field rather than telling a linear story.
Lost in Metropolis is a literary-visual journey through a cityscape suspended between dream and awakening, hope and suffocation—raising the question of what remains of the individual when absorbed into the structures of the urban realm.
The multiple exposures are taken from the photo series „Constructivism“ and „Multiple Views on Objects.“
They are accompanied by poetry by Hermine Ehrenberg, who died in May 2022. They are her last poems, which she wrote from her impressions while looking at the pictures. The photographs and texts are complemented by graphics that pick up on the formal language and elements of the pictures.
Photo book dummy, 38 pages, 30 x 30 cm, acrylic glass cover
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