Jules Spinatsch
Competing Agendas, Option 2 – Deutsche Börse Frankfurt 1440 Images recorded from 0h00 - 23h59, 8 June 2012
Competing Agendas, Option 2 – Deutsche Börse Frankfurt 1440 Images recorded from 0h00 - 23h59, 8 June 2012, 2012
Aus Surveillance Panorama Project No. 5
The 1,440 pictures were taken at Deutsche Börse Frankfurt on the opening day of the exhibition Status – 24 Contemporary Documents. They were transmitted to Fotomuseum in real-time and assembled into a panoramic picture., 21 x 31 x 21 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
2012-023-001a
b. 1964 (Davos, CH), lives and works in Zurich, CH and Vienna, AT
Jules Spinatsch does not need templates to make a document of his time. He does not need a bloody street battle or a group of dubious politicians to depict the G8 summit in Genoa. Spinatsch captures the details, the little things that happen on the sidelines, things that form the background to the events. He focuses on the barricades made of heaped-up containers – symbols of trade and the economy – deserted places, and minor matters. In their richness of detail, these things yield an unconventional overall picture of politicised places, where the key regulations enforce security and control, so that politicians and business moguls can carry out their negotiations within a sheltered vacuum.