Opening «Anne Collier – Photographic» & «SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data»
19:00 Welcome address by Dorothea Strauss, president of the board; introduction by the director Nadine Wietlisbach; the artist will be present.
ABOUT «ANNE COLLIER – PHOTOGRAPHIC»
The innocent image is an illusion – this is especially true for the omnipresent medium of photography. This is precisely the artistic starting point for Anne Collier. Born in Los Angeles in 1970 and currently living in New York, her conceptual works are based primarily on found materials from pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s; on photos gleaned from magazines, advertising, record covers, book illustrations and film stills. By photographing these printed images and putting them into new contexts, she pursues a reflexive archaeology of the uses of photography. Collier is interested, above all, in images with an emotive visual undertone, such as waves, eyes, clouds and romanticised sexism. With analytical elegance, Collier reflects the deceptive imagery that shapes our everyday lives and, in doing so, she reveals the tension between the photographic subject and the act of photographing.
The exhibition and publication, published by Hartmann Projects, were created in collaboration with the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
Kindly supported by the Friends’ Association Fotomuseum Winterthur, Paul Reinhart Foundation and Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim-Foundation.
ABOUT «SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data»
We rarely encounter a photographic image unaccompanied,but as an integral part of a broader arrangement of media. What tended to be confined to text-image-constellations in the era of print media has increasingly morphed and expanded into hybrid assemblages comprising a wide variety of image, text and audiovisual materials sourced from diverse contexts and displayed simultaneously on our screens and digital platforms. SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data explores contemporary variations of text and image and the tensions in between that determine not only what we see, but how we see it.
With works by Natalie Czech, Clare Strand, Maddie Varner and others.