Enric Duch  | Guest House  | Zoologischer Garten Berlin  | 2012

For over a year Enric Duch has been exploring the living conditions of animals in three german zoos. His particular eye for the architectural surrounding is visualizing a contradictory relationship of human beings and animals inside of artificial spaces: The zoo is filled with ideal ideas of nature and cultural fragments of different parts of the world. The animals seem to be in there nothing more than a decorations in addition to exotic plants and artificial rocks. The photo serie “Guest House” is presenting a heterotopic zoo-situation: The animals are surrounded by architectonic elements of collective ideas of their vanished biosphere, they are functioning as living metaphors of the desire for a lost paradise.

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