{"id":12616,"date":"2015-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hippolyte.web35.neutech.fi\/2015\/11\/19\/ben-kaila-das-berlin-buch-3\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T14:13:48","slug":"ben-kaila-das-berlin-buch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/2015\/11\/19\/ben-kaila-das-berlin-buch-3\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Nov \u2013 20 Dec 2015 Ben Kaila, Photographs from Das Berlin Buch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippolyte.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kaila_Berliini2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9159 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hippolyte.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kaila_Berliini2-1024x750.jpg\" alt=\"Patsaat 001\" width=\"980\" height=\"718\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the pages of <em>Das Berlin Buch<\/em> we see the traces left by people but we have to squint to see the people themselves. Ben Kaila is not old Marie of <em>The Box: Tales from the Darkroom<\/em> by G\u00fcnter Grass, taking pictures with her bizarre camera and conjuring the dead to climb out of their graves in the darkroom. He removes everything that is unnecessary from his pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless \u2013 or precisely because of this \u2013 they step forth, the dead and the ghosts of the city, even without heads, hands or lower extremities, like the heroes in the busts of statue group four of the Siegesallee that wound up in the Lapidarium which operated in a former waste water pumping station. I cannot move on from the skeletal chair frame at Beelitz-Heilst\u00e4tten without seeing in it two famous patients of the hospital \u2013 Corporal Adolf Hitler wounded in the fighting at the Somme and Erich Honecker who spent ten years in the prisons of Nazi Germany and later responsible for building the Berlin Wall. Nor can I close the book and forget that Berlin was a main scene of the violent 20th century, spreading suffering to the rest of the world before the rest of the world spread it back there.<\/p>\n<p>In Ben Kaila\u2019s photographs the moment is not the blink of an eye, the decisive moment arresting while fleeing, but instead a moment when following the traces of memory has led to the discovery something once lost. Jetztzeit, the moment when extrospection turns into introspection, when the perception of the eye arouses a long-dormant image in the cerebral cortex to save it from oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Harri Haanp\u00e4\u00e4<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Excerpt from Harri Haanp\u00e4\u00e4&#8217;s afterword to <em>Das Berlin Buch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ben Kaila&#8217;s book <em>Das Berlin Buch<\/em> is available to buy at the gallery, price \u20ac 39.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>27 Nov \u201320 Dec 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BEN KAILA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photographs from Das Berlin Buch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HIPPOLYTE STUDIO<\/strong><br \/>\nYrj\u00f6nkatu 8\u201310 courtyard, 00120 Helsinki, Finland<br \/>\n+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi<br \/>\nTue\u2013Fri 12\u201317, Sat\u2013Sun 12\u201316<br \/>\nClosed 6 Dec 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(image: Ben Kaila, Berliner Lapidarium, West Berlin, 1983)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn the pages of Das Berlin Buch we see the traces left by people but we have to squint to see the people themselves. Ben Kaila is not old Marie of The Box: Tales from the Darkroom by G\u00fcnter Grass, taking pictures with her bizarre camera and conjuring the dead to climb out of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13149,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions\/13149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}