Sachgebiete

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Ca. 70 S.; Illustr.; qu.-21 cm; fadengehefteter, illustr. Orig.-Pappband.

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Gutes Exemplar. - Texte englisch; französisch, litauisch. - Essays von J.-Christophe Blaser, Frank Brenner, Francois Huet. - Over the last decades, air travel has gradually become part of every day's life for most European citizens. However it still offers an "out of this world" experience. From the moment we leave home to go to the airport, air travel constitutes a kind of bubble in space and time, a transit zone where we are not yet at our destination but already not anymore in our daily environment and life. The vastness of these closed buildings with glass walls, forbidden zones and endless corridors, passenger flow requirements and security measures place us in a kind of childish situation where we have to comply with all sorts of constraints. We proceed to the gates when we are told; we sit where we are asked to. We wait, walk, shop, sleep or eat in the huge terminals that now tend to look the same everywhere on earth whilst keeping an eye on the big screens informing us of boarding gates and time. On board, we eat when the crew brings us our tray, whatever time it is and wherever we may be in the airspace. Airports and airplanes constitute a kind of limbo, an emptiness that we try to fill by killing time and trying to recreate as much as possible a familiar environment: Mothers feed babies, kids drag their teddy bears, daddies read stories, business men call their office: We try to act as if we were not there. Mindaugas Kavaliauskas' pictures describe this world and capture the human experience it generates in a slightly ironic, entomological, but also empathetic way. The confrontation between the rationality and coldness of the environment and the humanity of passengers is striking. Impregnated by Lithuanian culture, the images that Mindaugas proposes us combine melancholia and humour, aesthetic and psychology. They show love for humanity and question our place in a high-tech world and a shrinking planet. / Francois Huet. ISBN 9786098032079