Periphery
Photographie Exhibtion Sydhavn
Station / Copenhagen Photofestival
Curated by: Mette Juul /
Carsten Rabe
Artists: Samantha
Gora, Franziska Holz,
Carsten Rabe, Simon Riemer, Theda Schillmšller, Sofia Velasquez
Opening: Friday 3. June 2016
at 17 h
Exhibition: 4 – 19. June
2016
In the groupshow ãPeripheryÒ,
six different artists from Hamburg showing their new photoworks. All the
photographers come from different backgrounds and educations. In daily life
they are using photographie in different ways. Besides of there artistic output
in documentary, portraits and art photographie some of them producing pictures
for commercial and magazines. These different activities in their daily
photographie debate forms different kind of aethetic expressions. As common
background of all of them they are using photography to explore the beauty of
the ordinary and the present. The motives reflect everyday actions and examine
people in their living environments.
The Exhibition is focusing on
this bandwidth in between the differnet aesthetics and brings together
different forms of photographie related artworks, which shows a series of
conceptual arranged photographies which have no spatial or temporal relation to
each other in their making, and whose underlining Themes, Motives and
Situations are completely different from each other.
Most of the artworks illustrate the alteration and transformation of society and civilization. As silent fragments they come to symbolize the glamour of times long gone and its decay. At the same time they uncover a new much more present beauty through the aesthetic view of the camera. The recombination of the different shots into conceptional photographic arragements bestow the individual photographs with new dignity. The multitude of pictures arouse the viewer's curiosity and sharpens his eye to see their environment from new angles and come to new interpretations.