REST IN DISPEACE BY LISA EDI pres. by CONNECTED ARCHIVES
HAPPENING Photographer Lisa Edi presents Rest in Dispeace, a magazine of twelve climate crisis posters that blend bold visuals with data, inspiring activism and awareness.
Invited by Connected Archives, an international collective of like-minded photographers specializing in image licensing, photographer Lisa Edi presents her project Rest in Dispeace as part of this year’s Forward Festival in Vienna. A selection of works from the series will be displayed in a unique window-front gallery at the historic Gartenbaukino, bringing the project directly into the public sphere.
For more than a year, Edi has been working on Rest in Dispeace, a photographic series that seeks to establish a new visual language for the climate crisis. Moving away from journalistic disaster imagery and familiar clichés, the project explores a visual void and approaches this urgent subject with sensitivity and care.
The result is a set of twelve political posters that merge striking visual statements with data and facts on the climate crisis, inspired by the activist aesthetics of the 1970s.
The Gartenbaukino’s window gallery will be transformed into a site of protest. In doing so, the exhibition extends the project’s spirit of accessibility: the series is designed to confront passersby in their everyday environment as much as festival attendees.
Rest in Dispeace and its accompanying magazine are available free of charge, with voluntary donations encouraged to support the project’s wider dissemination.
