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With themes ranging from agriculture, religion and local customs to how people deal with the past and memory, and further to infrastructure, mobility, technology and tourism, it is clear that rural areas are no longer simply a place to retreat to, but are also a key arena for the negotiation of societal processes and future-oriented developments.<\/p>\n<p>Zerback&rsquo;s works are neither mere documentation nor pure aestheticisation. Instead, they open a space within which the ambiguities of rural transformation are condensed: progress and loss, tradition and innovation, proximity and unfamiliarity. 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