
Above and Below
- Publisher
- LE BAL
- Year
- 2015
- Specifications
- Softcover
11 x 19 cm
304 pages
289 images
French and English
Edition of 1000 copies
Published for the 2015 exhibition at LE BAL, Paris
The catalogue of Lewis's 2015 show at LE BAL, bringing together seven series, from The Pitch (1998) to Above and Below the Minhocão (2014). The title refers to that last film, made in São Paulo: the Minhocão is the elevated motorway that cuts through the city, three and a half kilometres long, the largest road project in South America when it was built in 1970. Urban sprawl, the weight of traffic, air pollution and noise have turned this outgrowth of modernity into a monument not to progress but to its collapse, and the book holds the whole underside of an idea of speed, flow and growth.