This publication is based on a series of surveys and photographs made in Berlin between 2001 and 2004 by artist Raphaël Grisey. A combination of images and texts, Wo versteckt sich Rosa L. is an exploration of the memory and the history of the city. This subjective guide of Berlin also features maps to locate the photographed sites.
Raphaël Grisey (born 1979 in Paris, lives and works in Berlin and Trondheim, Norway) His exclusively
video, editorial and
photographic works gathers or produces narratives on politics of memories,
migration or
architecture since many years. The photographic series and book
Wo versteckt sich Rosa L. (2001-2006), for example, was the study of the traces or ghosts of various political regimes in Berliner
public spaces. His films or installations, using diverse
documentary,
fictional or essayist forms deal also with social and political issues of the day such as immigration and
post-colonial issues in France (
Trappes, Ville Nouvelle, 2003;
Cooperative, 2008–). Recent films lead him to work in Budapest (
National motives, 2011), in french students' strikes situations
(The Indians, 2011), in China (
The exchange of perspectives, 2012), in Brazil around the social housing complex Pedregulho (
Minhocão, 2011) and in the Brazilian Positivist Church in Rio de Janeiro (
Amor e Progresso, 2014) or around maroon quilombola communities in Minas Gerais (
Remanescentes / A Mina dos Vagalumes, 2015). His work includes also collaboration projects such as the films
Prvi Deo and
Red Star (2006) dealing with post war issues in ex-Yougoslavia with
Florence Lazar and such as the project
Cooperative (2008-) with Bouba Touré.
