Interim
Andreas Mader
The Velvet Cell
English
Text by Andres Betschart and Peter Stamm
Hardcover
First edition of 500
116 pages
225 × 285 mm
2025
ISBN 9783911782012
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 photographed 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 space 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 hue. It is a portrait of a city – and of all cities – as they truly are: incomplete, living, and deeply human.
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About the Artist
Andreas Mader is a German photographer who lives in Winterthur, Switzerland and primarily works on long-term projects.
https://andreasmader.ch
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About the Publisher
The Velvet Cell is a German based photo book publisher run by visual artist Ricardo Nunes and was established by Éanna de Fréine in 2011. They are rooted primarily in the themes of urbanization and the human-altered world.
https://thevelvetcell.com
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