The Performing Grounds book is the collaboration between the Swedish graphic designer and publisher Dennis Hankvist and the German artist Patrick Morarescu. It compiles a selection from the photographic series Performing Grounds. The group of photos displays spaces that have suffered transformations by human actions; traces of movement, activity and change; architectures and places that once were alive and now are silent.
The echo of anthropogenic activity is still present in a future time and the consequent space transformation appears to be the documentation of a performance. Thus is photography the document of the document, the dimming reverberation of a time that will never come back.
One of the most feared fates, the expiring of existence, is made visible through the landscapes, as they would be leftovers; remains that are imbued with the melancholy of the accidental.

The Performing Grounds photographies were taken between 2007 and 2015 in the various countries of: Germany, Finland, Scotland, Spain, France, Romania, Jordan, Syria, Japan, Taiwan, Morocco, China and Cameroon.

The book was nominated for the Unveil’d photobook award 2018.

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Published by Trema Förlag [SWE]
170 x 240 mm
Hard cover
72 pages
57 colour illustrations
Text: English
First edition: 400 copies
Publication year: Dec 2016
ISBN 978-91-88539-01-4
Avaiable at Walter König bookstores, La Central/Madrid & Trema Förlag