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Swisspearl

Hochparterre

View over the Eternit factory roofs of Swisspearl in Niederurnen
forklift truck with eternit poducts in front of an eternit wall
An Eternit façade with orange and white Eternit shingles framed by yellow Eternit shingles
Worker in front of a blue and green eternit wall holding a red eternit panel
eternit facade with the shadow of a tree
three workes carrying eternit products in the showroom of the company
an orange eternit faCade from the 19th century
Eternit test panels with a human foot on which other Eternit panels are stacked
a horse out ot eternit in front of a red and a green eternit wall
corner of two different eternit facades
View over the Eternit factory roofs of Swisspearl in Niederurnen
forklift truck with eternit poducts in front of an eternit wall
An Eternit façade with orange and white Eternit shingles framed by yellow Eternit shingles
Worker in front of a blue and green eternit wall holding a red eternit panel
eternit facade with the shadow of a tree
three workes carrying eternit products in the showroom of the company
an orange eternit faCade from the 19th century
Eternit test panels with a human foot on which other Eternit panels are stacked
a horse out ot eternit in front of a red and a green eternit wall
corner of two different eternit facades

With the renaming of the Eternit company to Swisspearl, I was commissioned to photograph a themed issue for the Swiss magazine Hochparterre.

Over the decades, new test façades for new Eternit products were repeatedly raised on the buildings at the company's main site in Niederurnen. As a result, a diverse exhibition of fibre cement works has grown up without anyone curating it.

Different generations of formats and colours of Eternit products meet by chance and aesthetically.

I used this backdrop as the background for my staged photo series.

Editor

Rahel Marti

Art Direction

Antje Reineck and Barbara Schrag