Interim, Andreas Mader

A city is never finished. It is a place of transition, always in flux, constantly reshaping itself in response to time, people, and memory. In Interim, Andreas Mader explores Winterthur not through its postcard façades, but through its in-between spaces - where change is visible, and history and presence collide.

Between 2017 and 2024, Mader photographer the city in a quiet state of transformation: construction sites and decaying walls, deserted parking lots and newly planted trees, non-places on the margins and places newly claimed by life. His lens lingers on what is often overlooked - the tension between structure and entropy, nature and the built environment, presence and absence.

Mader's Winterthur is fragmented and open-ended. It reflects both a personal and collective narrative, where familiar streets dissolve into memory and every building is a possible story. The photographs resonate with the poetic text by Peter Stamm, where houses become memories, and the city more than the sum of its architecture - it becomes a vessel of time, of light, of loss and continuity.

Interim invites us to pause in that unstable place between what was and what might come. It is a portrait of a city - and of all cities - as they truly are: incomplete, living, and deeply human.

Andreas Mader is a German photographer who lives in Winterthur, Switzerland and primarily works on long-term projects. His portrait work 'Die Tage Das Leben - Days, Life, which spans over 35 years, was published as a book in 2018 and has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Published by The Velvet Cell
Edition of 500
English and German
Hardcover
116 pages
225 x 285 mm
ISBN 9783911782012