{"product_id":"basement-sanctuaries","title":"Basement sanctuaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eBasement Sanctuaries explores the ways in which superintendents\u003cbr\u003edecorate basements of apartment buildings in Northern Manhattan,\u003cbr\u003eNew York City by illuminating the process of migrant adaptation to\u003cbr\u003ethe metropolis from an intimate perspective. Superintendents are\u003cbr\u003ecaretakers that usually live in the basements of apartment buildings\u003cbr\u003ewith ten or more units. They are in charge of the building on behalf\u003cbr\u003eof the owner, maintain its public areas and the building's mechanical\u003cbr\u003eand technical systems, do repairs in the apartments and deal with the\u003cbr\u003etenants' concerns. Most of the supers in Northern Manhattan are\u003cbr\u003emigrants from Latin America or the Caribbean. During the process of\u003cbr\u003eapartment hunting in Northern Manhattan, Wurfel discovered these\u003cbr\u003eunexpected and innovatively decorated areas. The repeated themes\u003cbr\u003eof cultural, national, and religious origins suggest that similar\u003cbr\u003eimpulses drive the decoration process for different supers. However\u003cbr\u003ethe photographs also show the diverse ways in which supers have\u003cbr\u003epersonalised their multifunctional living\/work spaces and have\u003cbr\u003ecreated a uniquely intimate space in the basement of New York City.\u003cbr\u003eGrey Matters Series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the fourth volume in the Schilt Publishing Grey Matters series\u003cbr\u003efollowing on from Matthew Murray's SKA, Chiara Tocci's Life After\u003cbr\u003eZog, and Lucia Ganieva's Ermitazhniki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGesche Wurfel, born in Bremerhaven,\u003cbr\u003eGermany, has lived in the United\u003cbr\u003eStates since 2009. She gained a degree\u003cbr\u003ein Urban Planning from the University\u003cbr\u003eof Dortmund, Germany in 2003 and an\u003cbr\u003eMA in Photography and Urban Cultures\u003cbr\u003ewith Distinction from Goldsmiths,\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of London, UK in 2006. She\u003cbr\u003ewas selected as one of the Bloomberg\u003cbr\u003eNew Contemporaries in 2007 and has\u003cbr\u003ebeen exhibited internationally. The\u003cbr\u003eBasement Sanctuaries series has been\u003cbr\u003eawarded three grants by the Northern\u003cbr\u003eManhattan Arts Alliance and the Lower\u003cbr\u003eManhattan Cultural Council, and has\u003cbr\u003ebeen exhibited at Field Projects NYC\u003cbr\u003eand the New York Public Library.\u003cbr\u003eBasement Santuries will be exhibited at\u003cbr\u003eUPI, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY in June 2014\u003cbr\u003eand at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland,\u003cbr\u003eOregon in September 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gesche Wurfel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48988972515578,"sku":"SW-A4\/11\/06092026","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/3387\/5450\/files\/IMG_2334_3aee936c-42d5-49df-b2a2-58cc1c3ee648.jpg?v=1781108950","url":"https:\/\/flippedpages.com\/products\/basement-sanctuaries","provider":"Flipped Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}