Artist:
Heidrun Holzfeind (born 1972 in Lienz, Austria; lives and works in New York, USA and Vienna, Austria).
Materials:
Series of digital c-prints; variable dimensions.
Description:
Photography series on the Pedregulho Housing Complex in the Benfica neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
“Conjunto Residencial Prefeito Mendes de Morais Pedregulho was built between 1948 and 1958 by Affonso Eduardo Reidy as a model for a social housing complex. Today the building is run down since the maintainance is pretty much left to the inhabitants. Not many keep paying rent. Only the school, part of the complex has recently be renovated.”
—Website of Heidrun Holzfeind.