Phoebe Kiely – They Were My Landscape MER.Paper Kunsthalle 13 photographs and measurements were

13 photographs and measurements were the starting point for F#1-13

Around forty unpublished images and several previous iconic ones of everyday scenes convey a concentrate of Parisian atmosphere

interwoven with a series of short texts by Mike Slack

all share of awareness that opens our eyes to the poetry of the unknown

Thanks to Art and Theory Publishing (Stockholm) and Idea Books (Amsterdam)

Phoebe Kiely – They Were My Landscape MER.Paper Kunsthalle 13 photographs and measurements wereThey were my landscape by Phoebe Kiely builds a fragmented picture of a place that is at once personal and anonymous. Based in Manchester, Kiely compulsively catalogues her urban and suburban surroundings, drawing attention to prosaic spectacles and passers by. In her book, the cracked concrete of vernacular architecture, or the flattened feathers of a pigeon lying on a road are granted the same scrutiny as a young man smoking at a bus stop, or a