
Interim
- Publisher
- The Velvet Cell
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-3-911782-01-2
- Specifications
- Hardcover
116 pages
225 × 285 mm
Four Colour Offset printing
Limited edition of 500 copies
Text by Peter Stamm and Andres Betschart
Design by Ricardo Nunes
Typeset in Agipo by Radim Pesko
Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH
A city is never finished. It is a place of transition, always in flux, constantly reshaping itself in response to time, people, and memory. In Interim, Andreas Mader explores Winterthur not through its postcard façades, but through its in-between spaces – where change is visible, and history and presence collide. Between 2017 and 2024, Mader photographed the city in a quiet state of transformation: construction sites and decaying walls, deserted parking lots and newly planted trees, non-places on the margins and places newly claimed by life. His lens lingers on what is often overlooked – the tension between structure and entropy, nature and the built environment, presence and absence. Mader’s Winterthur is fragmented and open-ended. It reflects both a personal and collective narrative, where familiar streets dissolve into memory and every building is a possible story. The photographs resonate with the poetic text by Peter Stamm, where houses become memories, and the city more than the sum of its architecture – it becomes a vessel of time, of light, of loss and continuity. Interim invites us to pause in that unstable space between what was and what might come. It is a portrait of a city – and of all cities – as they truly are: incomplete, living, and deeply human.