#8 Attica: Ricarda Roggen.

Attica is the land that surrounds Athens. Through the buildings, houses and temples have passed all the varieties of hegemony, despot and democracy. Similarly, this East German attic has been a structure that has held a long and intense succession of ghosts--it is a repository of our imagination but also of the cultural weight of oikonomos, the officialdom.

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The attic houses the Zeitgeist for a while and then a new host supplants it. Now the attic is empty, almost like a stripped temple, waiting for the new spirit to inhabit it.

The photographer and artist Rut Blees Luxemburg curates a monthly series of artworks for the AR relating to questions of space and architecture