Juri Velt: Tender and Toxic Tales

Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the social and architectural repercussions of its absence. The stories bear witness to the use of the landscape and its consequences, with interjections by tongues both ancient and new, offering fragments of forgotten narratives and glimpses of alternatives perspectives. Trained as an architect and photographer, Velt moves between rural regions and cities to address in their work the question of how to live together, with a particular focus on companionship and other forms of resistance.