"Where the Fire Entered" follows a fire not as spectacle, but as an intrusion into the urban body. The sequence moves from a smoke plume above the city to neighbouring windows, blurred façades and the burned architectural surface left behind. In black and white, smoke becomes temporary architecture, while soot turns the building into a field of inscription. The series observes how danger crosses thresholds: from skyline to wall, from façade to room, from event to scar.
Marcel van Beek (b. 1990 in Bonn) is a Leipzig-based visual artist. His photography moves between fine art, close observation of nature and scientifically informed visual research. He explores how surfaces, water, concrete, vegetation and urban spaces store time, memory and change. Van Beek has presented solo exhibitions at the German Environment Agency, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and Leipzig University Library. His work has received international awards and is held in public collections.
