Aglaia Konrad reist viel

Aglaia Konrad was born in Salzburg in 1960 and now lives and works in Brussels. Over the years she brought together an enormous archive of images shot in such diverse cities as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, Tokyo, Cairo or Shanghai. Her pictures are always very strong, dry, very beautiful. Her book “Elasticity” provides a “strong dose of the thrill and horror of the late 20th-century metropolis” (…) her work documents “the global centers of late capitalism in all their frightening glory.” (R. Smith in NY Times 2004). A catalogue of an exhibition of her in Antwerp is available here.

(c) Aglaia Konrad