| | | | | | | | | Exhibition view, Arcades II, Christine Erhard © Cité de l’image | | | Saison 2023 – 2024: FORMENSPRACHE | | | Free access to the outdoor exhibitions, daily, all year | | | | | | | 14 October 2023 – 7 October 2024 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clervaux - Cité de l'image enters its new season 2023-2024 with 6 new open-air exhibitions.
We dive into a world full of fantastic forms, approaches, themes and techniques. The six photographers invited this year use their own formal language to express emotions, convey stories or present certain concepts. In this open-air exhibition, the focus is on playing with contrasts, experimenting with techniques or on the most diverse stylistic elements.
Through their creative and poetic manner, the photographers are constantly developing their artistic potential. The diverse spectrum of formal language enables the artists to draw the viewer's attention in order to convey messages and create a certain atmosphere. | | | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2015 © Tina Lechner | | | | | | The female body is the starting point in Tina Lechner's analogue black and white photography. The body acts as a projection surface and is covered, supplemented and distorted with self-made, futuristic-looking costumes and prostheses. These eerily majestic objects combine fashion and sculpture - originally created as metaphorical armour to respond to transience and vulnerability, serving simultaneously as a medium for empowerment. Enlargements of reality, non-functional, sometimes heavy, a weight that the model has to carry during the photo shoot, but invisible to the viewer. A lightness and timelessness that make Lechner's creatures seem natural, the protagonists are not forced onto the stage but born in the process of their creation. Moving between art history and posthuman vision, the work deals with identity and the awareness of it.
Tina Lechner (*1981 in St. Pölten, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. She studied art and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2007-2013. Tina Lechner's work has been shown in various exhibitions in Vienna and abroad. | | | | | | | | | | Serie With You (part 3), 2022 © Sanja Marušić | | | | | | With her luminous landscape portraits, Sanja Marušić creates new worlds with her images. They are depictions of fundamental themes in the life of a young woman, in particular, she tries to visualize new phases and personal periods of life.
In her creative process, which resembles meditation, the process of photography is intuitively controlled. Inspired by the landscape, sunlight, shadows or feelings, the artist creates a moment in time and lets her imagination flow in the creation of her images.
She uses a variety of analogue and digital techniques and experiments with colours and shapes. Escaping reality - embarking on a journey into a timeless and brightly coloured world - plays an essential role in her work.
Sanja Marušić (*1991) is a Dutch-Croatian artist. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2013. She was nominated for the Paul Huf Award 2020. She had national and international exhibitions. Her work has previously been on display in the Mauritshuis, the Van Gogh Museum and Paris Photo, among others. | | | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2023 © Liz Lambert | | | | | | Relationships are often based on an idea of infinity. And yet, like everything in our world, they are transient. Depending on the situation and personal feelings, both transience and infinity can be a factor of hope or fear. No end without a beginning, no beginning without an end - what does this dynamic do to us?
In a poetic and partly symbolic way, the artist Liz Lambert explores the questions of how relationships come into being and develop, what role mental health and past experiences play in this and what effects they can have on oneself - in both a positive and negative sense. What does it mean to open up, knowing full well that this makes you vulnerable and open to attack? How to allow and endure fears and insecurities so that something greater can grow? In this work, Liz Lambert reflects on her personal experiences by combining self-portraits and spontaneous mobile phone photos of fleeting moments and allowing them to enter into a dialogue. Since the photos do not show faces and seem to be taken out of context, they radiate something mysterious and at the same time guarantee a certain anonymity. A space is created that allows for subjective emotions and interpretations.
Liz Lambert (*1993, Luxembourg) lives and works in Saarbruecken, graduated with a Master's degree in Religious Studies. In photography she has found a medium that allows her to capture and process her attentive and sensitive view of the world. She finds inspiration in everyday life. | | | | | | | | | | A XI GHH, 2022 © Christine Erhard | | | | | | Architectural fragments in combination with abstract forms, colour surfaces and lines are the main components of Christine Erhard's photographs. Photographic perspectives and graphic elements are in dialogue with each other, this kind of collage and montage runs through the entire artistic work of Christine Erhard.
Her photographic works develop out of a sculptural process in her studio. No digital post-processing, the object of the image has been conceived and built by the artist, as different materials, axes of vision and levels of reality actually physically come together in her images. In a matter of seconds, the camera produces an image of an object that was made for the sole purpose of taking a photograph. The lengthy craft process of the image object, which extremely slows down the production of the image, is in opposition to the ever faster medium of the photographic image. It takes a while to grasp Christine Erhard's photographs; at first slightly irritating, the eye is drawn into the picture, follows the different perspectives and immerses itself in the surfaces and depths.
Christine Erhard (*1969) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1992 to 1998, since then she has worked as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf and since 2022 has been Professor of Photography at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel. | | | | | | | | | | Contrevues, 2023 © Steph Meyers | | | | | | The series "Contrevues" (Juxtapositions) was realised at the Rencontres d'Arles in July 2023. It questions the gaze of the viewer of photographs, which is anonymised by the framing of the image. Strictly speaking, it is the seeing that is simultaneously emphasised and negated by the photographer's gaze. The experience of visiting a photo exhibition is represented by the mise en abîme (also known as the Droste effect, an infinite repetition of an image within an image) in order to better reflect on the encounter with the work. In this series, the encounter is doubled, creating a distance between what is shown and what is seen. Or according to the dialectic proposed by Georges Didi-Huberman - "what we see, what looks at us" - to better question what is gained and what is lost by looking.
Here, the viewer is placed at the centre and becomes the object of the shot, while his attention is entirely focused on what escapes us, what we are forbidden to see. Paradoxically, the viewer's activity is highlighted while the gaze is dazzled, in a deliberate confusion between object and subject of the photograph. This performativity of the image, which operates with double tension in this series, thus seems to replace the gaze.
The title of the series suggests this reflexivity, in reference to the derivative terms counterfield in cinema or counterpoint in music. The back takes shape, becomes a work of art, also in a playful way, by showing itself from behind.
Steph Meyers has been director of the Rotondes since 2016. From 2009 to 2019, he organised the Troc'n'Brol art market at the Rotondes and also participated with various works (photography, design, visual arts). From 2008 to 2016, he was responsible for the general programme and in particular for the visual arts of the CarréRotondes and then the Rotondes. He also coordinated the socio-cultural projects within the framework of the European Capital of Culture Luxembourg 2007. | | | | | | | | | | | keep on, 2023 © Thaddäus Biberauer | | | | | | Photographer Thaddäus Biberauer takes us on his journeys through the nature of Europe. From the gloomy forest landscape, wild rivers, dancing flower fields to the sand dunes and the sea. The blurred snapshots, staged almost picturesquely, invite us to dream. Reality blurs, one loses oneself in space and time. By deliberately manipulating the photographs, he puts his own stamp on his pictures, while photographing with filters offers a multitude of possibilities for experimentation and design.
Intuitively, Thaddäus Biberauer captures every sight, engaging with his personal connection to nature. Soft colours and gentle lighting with somewhat dramatic contrasts are in dialogue with each other. Every emotion and mood is captured, while Thaddäus Biberauer's photographs also have nostalgic elements and allow feelings and memories to be preserved in a visual way.
Thaddäus Biberauer, born and raised in Austria. His main profession is as a software engineer. Since 2019, he has been intensively exploring the medium of photography and has integrated photography into his everyday activities. After a short time, the handling with his camera and photography itself captured him, so that this became his main activity. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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