Dana Lixenberg - De Wallen Amsterdam
| Author | Jenny Smets |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Roma Publications |
| ISBN | 9789464460889 |
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| Status | not yet published |
Dana Lixenberg’s 'De Wallen Amsterdam' is a portrait of Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the historic neighbourhood where she spent her early childhood. It offers an insight into the diverse community where residents, sex workers, tourists, and others converge, not always without friction but in relative harmony. Lixenberg’s work on De Wallen, created between 2021 and 2025, does not focus on the excesses in the community, the result of overtourism and overconsumption. Nor does she take a position on the recent political and communal efforts to contain these excesses. Shot on film with a large-format camera, it consists of a series of intimate black-and-white portraits of residents, visitors, artists, sex workers, drifters and entrepreneurs. These are shown alongside detailed monumental interiors in colour, devoid of people, that reveal what lies behind the façades of the alleys and canals. De Wallen Amsterdam also includes stills from a three-channel video installation which is part of the project’s exhibition at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Sep 2025 – Feb 2026).
| 192 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English |
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