Review
Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:00at SCOTTY
Review
Group show, Partner of 6th European Month of Photography Berlin.
In the exhibition "Review" the artists Charlotte Bastian, Simone Häckel, Karen Linnenkohl, Christine Niehoff, Mariel Poppe, Claudia Schoemig, Annette Sonnewend and Linda Weiss take a critical look at the borders of the European Union, asking questions about the meaning of the European idea. In her collages, Bastian reassembles paper cut-outs of photographs taken on journeys all over Europe since the 1990's. Poppe reflects on the nature and construction of borders in her video "Paravent", a plea for open borders. Sonnewend's fictional photographic work "European Borderline" explores Europe's borderline personality disorder: negative and sometimes seemingly paradox behavior, a troubled relationship with its own identity… In Weiss' video work "Life/Death/Utopia" places, events and interviews - such as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavillion, suicides in the wake of the real estate crisis, the memoirs of formula 1 test driver María de Villota - all act as metaphors for processes of cause and effect in Europe.