The void thematized in the Berlin images approximates Bürkle’s scenes from Beirut, a city that, like Berlin, has experienced both a past war and a new beginning. The photo of a road emerging from a tunnel, winding—new, smooth, and full of promise from the debris and chaos of a construction site—in an elegant curve toward the upper edge of the image bears direct comparison with Bürkle’s photos and paintings of Berlin construction sites. In the Beirut photo, Bürkle provides an aesthetic component to the image of the new street’s dynamic emergence.
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Town, Country, River
byJenny Gaschke
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