CHARGED PLACES
Matthias Hoch photographs objects that are of vital importance for daily life in modern society, such as government offices, hospitals and banks. With great interest in contemporary architecture, Hoch records the places where there is nothing to see or experience: the backs of the buildings, empty spaces and parking garages. These are the final pieces of the newly delivered complexes, which were the last things to be filled in on the drawing board, interchangeable lumps of architecture from which the identity of the building cannot be read. They are symbolic of the social machinery that, according to Hoch, functions like a refrigerator with a multicable.
