From 1996 to 2006, she followed the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche (Our Lady Church) in Dresden, considered the most beautiful Lutheran building in Germany, which collapsed after the city was bombed in February 1945. It remained a field of ruins for nearly 45 years, a scar and a memory of the war.
It was only in 1990, after German reunification, at the initiative of Dresden’s residents, that there was talk of healing this gaping wound. The reconstruction was estimated to cost 125 million euros. The vault of the crypt was rebuilt in 1996. Caroline Bach, struck by the symbolism and beauty of the effort, spent nearly 10 years documenting—through precise photographic work—not only the reconstruction process of the building but also the restoration of the memory of a city and its inhabitants.
She manipulates the photographic surface to better question the gaze. The Dresden series intertwines complexity, image readability, and the inventory function of photography.
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