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      Stefan Banz

      I Built This Garden For Us

      160 pages | 89 color images | 12 x 16.5cm, Hardcover | 1999 | German / English
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For years, Stefan Banz created photographs and videos about his seemingly unspectacular family life. His ambiguously charged images record his children growing up, his wife, and their petty-bourgeois environment in Lucerne, Switzerland. He claims to construct images “of those moments when coincidence and keenness of the eye coalesce to reveal the mystery of reality in its strange abundance of possible meanings.” He photographs blue-and-white plastic deck chairs and closed parasols at night, a little rag doll hanging on a brass door handle, a white fur-trimmed baby overall on white bathroom tiles, the neighbour’s little boy lying around naked on the ground, surrounded by garden hoses.

These images and their peculiarly voyeuristic, yet intimate gestures discreetly point to an abyss lurking in the idyll of the family garden where the incomprehensible runs its course.



長年をかけて、Stefan Banzは家族との取るに足らない日常生活を写真やビデオに撮っていた。これらの写真やビデオは、彼の子どもたちの成長や奥さん、それから非常にブルジョワ的なスイスLucerneでの環境を記録している。彼は、「偶然の一致と視点の鋭さが合致したとき、妙に無意味な現実の不可思議さが明らかになる」ような瞬間を捉えようとしていると言う。青と白のプラスチック製デッキチェアや夜になって閉じたパラソル、真鍮のドアハンドルに吊るされたちいさなぬいぐるみ、全面白で統一されたバスルームのタイルの上に置いてある赤ちゃん用の白いファーのつなぎ、ホースの間で地面に裸で横たわる近所の小さな男の子などを撮影している。
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