Metrovia
Subtitle: Buenos Aires
By: Krass Clement
Publisher: Gyldendal
Published: 2021
Place of publication: København
Language: dan
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9788702256925
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Danish Art
Other titles: Krass Clement :
Description: Metrovia by Krass Clement is a book about Buenos Aires, but not in the usual sense as a book about this whole city with its architecture and famous squares. Rather, a description of the feeling evoked by a place, which is reflected in the book in an alternation between the immediately recorded and the subjective interpretation. Understood in the way that the seen is turned and edited during the course of the book, so that it gradually dissolves the concrete in order to assume a more abstract form, which encapsulates the mood. Of course, we get a sense of the city's physical character, but most of all, the atmosphere is maintained through a repeated return to the city's subway, Metrovia, with all that it precisely offers of human diversity. There is a wide alternation between recurring themes, i.a. the natural history museum, which on a concrete level is an expression of a matter-of-fact scientificity, but which in the book gradually acquires an unreal and fluid meaning. The city has an immediate recognizability by its strong European touch, which calls for a recognition that nevertheless remains a stranger. Precisely in the imperceptible dispute between, on the one hand, what seems familiar and, on the other hand, a distant and foreign continent, the book unfolds. We can immediately find ourselves, but in a society exposed to a creeping but violent pressure that, like an undertone, permeates the mood. After all, we remain strangers to the anonymous stream of people. In the subway, in tango restaurants, by a closed carousel - places that evoke memories of an old Europe, the experience arises of something static, of something that is no more, however, it is a modern metropolis with a myriad of shifts

Metrovia af Krass Clement er en bog om Buenos Aires, men ikke i gængs forstand som en bog om hele denne by med dens arkitektur og kendte pladser. Snarere en beskrivelse af den følelse, der vækkes ved et sted, og som i bogen reflekteres i en vekslen mellem det umiddelbart registrerede og den subjektive fortolkning. Forstået på den måde, at det sete vendes og redigeres i løbet af bogen, så det efterhånden opløser det konkrete for at antage en mere abstrakt form, som indkredser stemningen. Selvfølgelig får vi en fornemmelse af byens fysiske karakter, men mest fastholdes atmosfæren gennem en gentagen tilbagevenden til byens undergrundsbane, Metrovia, med alt, hvad netop den udbyder af menneskelig mangfoldighed. Der veksles vider mellem tilbagekommende temaer, bl.a. det naturhistoriske museum, som på et konkret plan er et udtryk for en saglig videnskabelighed, men som i bogen efterhånden får en uvirkelig og flydende betydning. Byen har en umiddelbar genkendelighed ved sit stærke europæiske islæt, som kalder på en genkendelse, der dog alligevel forbliver en fremmed. Netop i det umærkelige tvist mellem på den ene side hvad, der synes kendt og på den anden side en fjern og fremmed verdensdel, udfolder bogen sig. Vi kan umiddelbart finde os selv, men i et samfund udsat for et snigende men voldsomt pres, der som en undertone gennemstrømmer stemningen. Vi forbliver trods alt fremmede overfor den anonyme menneskestrøm. I undergrundsbanen, på tango-restauranter, ved en lukket karrusel - steder som giver mindelser om et gammelt Europa, opstår oplevelsen af noget statisk, af noget, som ikke er mere, dog er det en moderne metropol med et utal af forskydninger