Between 2017 and 2024, Mader photographed the city in a quiet state of transformation: construction sites and decaying walls, deserted parking lots and newly planted trees, non-places on the margins and places newly claimed by life. His lens lingers on what is often overlooked – the tension between structure and entropy, nature and the built environment, presence and absence.

Mader’s Winterthur is fragmented and open-ended. It reflects both a personal and collective narrative, where familiar streets dissolve into memory and every building is a possible story. The photographs resonate with the poetic text by Peter Stamm, where houses become memories, and the city more than the sum of its architecture – it becomes a vessel of time, of light, of loss and continuity.

Interim invites us to pause in that unstable space between what was and what might come. It is a portrait of a city – and of all cities – as they truly are: incomplete, living, and deeply human.

Andreas Mader is a German photographer who lives in Winterthur, Switzerland and primarily works on long-term projects. His portrait work ‘Die Tage Das Leben - Days, Life, which spans over 35 years, was published as a book in 2018 and has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions.