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  • space a
    • By force, if necessary
    • ATOPIA
    • NLTBHBWT
    • The South Street Village
    • TOTEM
    • Fantasma
    • regained paradise
    • Pridnestrovie
    • Think of all the places you could have been
  • space b
    • Dehumanisation
    • From Albania with sun
    • Lviv funeral
    • Ukraine train
    • The virus
    • Belarus protests
    • The Border
    • Home
    • Boasheng Dadi
    • sleeping china
    • A good day for a ride
    • Xiamen plage
    • two monks
    • in between
    • All the places
  • assignments
    • portraits
    • stories for press >
      • Die Mauer im Kopf
      • Refugees >
        • Dunkerque
        • The Jungle
        • Salaam Palace
        • European border
        • Safe house Brussels
        • Minor refugees
      • The last ferry
      • Fancy animals
      • The prime minister campaign
      • Fuck austerity
      • Dockers
      • Guinee in Brussels
      • soccer
      • swingers
    • spreads
  • buy prints/books
  • Media

​T O T E M examines the notion of living, living as the fundamental key experience that opens and unlocks other experiences. Living has to be thought as the making of a place. Man has indeed a relation to a place, living is the co-existence between man and reality and is the most fundamental of human existence, it creates a frame wherein all becomes possible. Living can not be seen as an activity, but is foremost the symbolic transformation of the endless time into history, to create the wild and nameless nature into a world. Living in this undefined space means to create a center, to mark a point, a topos, to create a place to whom one can connect. From that moment the totem is placed, the space is structured, one can leave and return, and can be at home in a human world.

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