Laurence Rasti - Wall as Horizon

Laurence Rasti

ISBN 10: 3858818941 / ISBN 13: 9783858818942

Published by Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, CH, 2024

About this Item

Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself with the inmates of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterised by precarity and exile. In conversation with prisoners, researchers, and scholars, she questions a concept of imprisonment apparently geared towards poverty rather than crime. Rasti's artistic research is based on a collaborative approach in which the inmates themselves also take pictures using pinhole cameras and engage in transcribing interviews.The focus of Rasti's photographic investigation is on the people deprived of their freedom. It reflects on the correlation of prison, precarity, and migration: topics that, in the case of a prison like La Promenade, are closely linked and of great social significance.Text in English and French.

Seller Inventory # LU-9783858818942

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Laurence Rasti - Wall as Horizon
• Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, CH
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818941
• ISBN 13: 9783858818942
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 910 grams

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Synopsis

Laurence Rasti’s meditation on the lives of detainees at La Promenade penitentiary in Switzerland through photographs.

Swiss artist Laurence Rasti has immersed herself with the inmates of a prison in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. At La Promenade penitentiary in the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, she encountered lives largely characterized by precarity and exile. In conversation with detainees A., G., L., M., N., N., T., and Z.; curator and art historian Federica Martini; and migration researcher Luca Gnaedeinger, she questions a concept of imprisonment seemingly intended to punish poverty rather than crime. Rasti’s artistic research is based on a collaborative approach in which the inmates themselves also take pictures using pinhole cameras and engage in transcribing interviews.

The focus of Rasti’s photographic investigation is on the people deprived of their freedom. Her book reflects on the correlation of prison, precarity, and migration—topics that, in the case of a prison-like La Promenade, are closely linked and of great social significance.

About the Author

Laurence Rasti teaches in the photography program at EDHEA in Sion, Switzerland.