Brasília, the capital of Brazil, formally dedicated in 1960, seems more
like an architectural myth, a fiction, than a real place. Between the
years 2003 and 2009, the Brazilian-Korean artist Lina Kim and the German
artist Michael Wesely embarked on a journey into the present-day
reality and the archives of this city. One result of their artistic hunt
for clues is the »Arquivo Brasília,« a collection of historical photo
material on how Brasília came to be. While conducting their research,
Kim and Wesely also photographed themselves in Brasília – choosing their
backdrops in part as a result of their archival studies. The
time-exposure photographs exaggerate the city’s utopian character even
further with their diffuse light, providing some unusual per- spectives
on this unique place. (source: KehrerVerlag)
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