EX-TERRITORY Zanzibar/Rostock

In 1968 a master plan was drawn up for Zanzibar by a team of East German planners and architects.
It was a political-territorial strategy to provide a showcase demonstrating an ideal socialist neighbourhood.

Mieke Woestenburg (the Netherlands, 1981, is a conceptual photographer graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Ba) + Film and Photographic Studies, Leiden University (Ma).
She is currently course leader of the Visual Culture program at AMFI / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)

The works explore how human narratives shape the visible world around us. Our narratives are meant to create a sense of cohesion and control, an understanding of the world. Yet, looking from any another perspective, there is none such inherent cohesion to be found. Taking up different perspectives reveals the inherent gaps and inconsistencies within any narrative.

By manipulating scale, perspective, and light within the photographic medium, she invites viewers to deconstruct the illusion of cohesion in our narratives, exposing the inherent unpredictability of human decision-making and its unintended consequences.

printed by SSP Amsterdam
publication has been made possible by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual arts, design and architecture
limited of 100 copies