Amsterdam Foam

From 14 March 2008 Foam presents STASI – Secret Rooms

by the German artist duo Daniel & Geo Fuchs. The exhibition

opens up the hidden rooms once used by the STASI,

the infamous East German secret service, in a series of

monumental photos. While much of the formerDDR infrastructure

has been destroyed, or given an entirely new function,

the clandestine spaces that Daniel and Geo Fuchs photographed

are still in their original condition. Offices, cell complexes,

bunkers, living quarters and interrogation rooms:

everything is exactly the way it was before 'Die Wende'.

The typical East European interiors, with their functional

furniture and sober colours seem remarkably stylised

in retrospect. Yet above all, what this large, intriguing

project shows is the symbiosis of architecture,

power and impotence, more info http://www.foam.nl/