Zwischenland (Land in between)
Catalog of the exhibition.
1) Veins of the soil
Brown coal was extracted from this quarry for many years. After abandonment, nature drains the contaminated soils to the bottom of a polluted lake. The red color provided by the exposed minerals forms a blood-colored lagoon.
2) The shadow of a dead tree on the dry lakebed.
A few years ago, this was the bottom of a lake. Today, more than 70% of the water is gone and will not be replenished due to the lack of rain, leaving the ground exposed like elephant skin. The open wounds of climate change.
3) Deposit bottle
Stacked in boxes, all kinds of colors, plastic, glass, hundreds of them, thousands of them stuck in a bottleneck.
4) Telephone booth cemetery
With the advances in technology, telephone booths lost their usefulness in a short period of time. Those boxes that were used to connect people and even used by some to shelter from the cold and rain now lie piled up in a lost corner far from the city.
5) The asparagus harvest.
Bent over, the workers gather asparagus from the soil while a strange machine advances alongside them, ready to collect their harvest. Hour after hour, the scorching sun beats down on their backs. The asparagus harvest is short, but the work to obtain it is harsh.
6) The eye of nature
Berlin can have very unusual natural landscapes for a big city, in that limit between rural and nature, a tree grows in the middle of a corn field that, playing with sunlight and shadows, is drawn in the shape of an eye.
Zwischenland (Land in between)
The photographs reveal an intermediate territory, a Zwischenland, where the abstract and the concrete coexist. Depending on the viewer’s distance, textures transform into landscapes, and landscapes dissolve into forms. Each piece invites us to pause at that threshold where perception shifts and place becomes image.
About Nestor Barbitta
Nestor Barbitta graduated as an audiovisual designer from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a visual artist, photojournalist, professional drone pilot, and photography teacher. He has been living and working in Berlin for over 4 years. His work has been exhibited in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Zurich, and Berlin. In 2020, he won the Itaú Visual Arts Award with his aerial photography series “Partido”.
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7) Small island in the Spree
Surrounded by the city, this island preserves nature like a small capsule. In the middle of winter it looks like an empty wasteland, but spring will come and after blooming, life returns to occupy it.
8) Canola fields
In spring the fields around Berlin and Brandenburg are filled with small yellow flowers that color the landscape. These homogeneous fields hide the tracks of tractors that leave geometric shapes as they pass by.
9) Food chain
A group of hairy cows feed quietly. Their owners fatten them, they eat without knowing their fate.
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