Jürgen Nefzger – Bure (ou la vie dans les bois) Landscape Swiss-bound embossed softcover with thread-sewn

Swiss-bound embossed softcover with thread-sewn booklet

While largely overlooked in art-historical discourse

Texts by: Lynn Breedlove

Fragments of a lingering summer

Jürgen Nefzger – Bure (ou la vie dans les bois) Landscape Swiss-bound embossed softcover with thread-sewnIn Bure, a small French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region, French and German opponents of nuclear power have been campaigning for decades against the construction of a permanent disposal site for highly radioactive nuclear waste. The opposition movement took shape in the Lejuc forest, where Jrgen Nefzger photographed the everyday life of a group of protesters who had made the woods their temporary home until the camp was cleared