| | | |  | | | Mónica Alcázar-Duarte
The Coming Storm! I, 2021
From the series Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, 2021–2024
© Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, 2024 | | | | | RAY Echoes Identity | | | | 5th International Triennial of Photography | | | | | | | 3 May – 1 September, 2024 | | | FFF-Preview and meet the artists: Thursday, 2 May, 5pm
Opening RAY Triennial: Thursday, 2 May, 7pm, at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Saturday, 4 May, 5pm "ECHOES IDENTITY"
Gallery Talk with exhibited RAY artists and Celina Lunsford
Tuesdays, 21 May, 25 June and 20 August, 3 pm
Curator's tour with Celina Lunsford, RAY curator and Artistic Director FFF, or Andrea Horvay | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Joy Gregory
Autoportrait, 1990/2024
© Joy Gregory, 2024, Courtesy the artist | | | | | | For decades, the institutions and collections in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region have been home to a remarkable density and expertise in the field of photography and related media. After the last four successful editions of the RAY – Triennial of Photography, now eleven cooperating institutions are joining forces to make this focus internationally visible. With exhibitions, numerous events, including the beginning three-day festival on the triennial theme of "ECHOES", RAY offer a multifaceted exploration of photography for all from May 3rd to September 1st, 2024.
The artists of the triennial use photography and related media to explore and reflect on the challenges and tensions of self-perception and human interaction. Their works span the past, present, and future, from the intimate and personal to the collective. By capturing these diverse moments and phenomena, they create an echo that draws the public’s attention to their themes. Similar to a sound experience, they reverberate their messages that are perceived as an independent event beyond what is depicted. On this basis, "RAY ECHOES" concentrates on three focal points: identity, memory, and emotion.
With RAY ECHOES. IDENTITY Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is showing one of three central exhibitions of the Triennial focussing on the relationship between photography and identity. The exhibited artists Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (MX), Joy Gregory (GB), Jürgen Klauke (DE), Dinu Li (HK) and Inuuteq Storch (DK) explore the making and breaking away from identities. Echoes are present in the form of reflections on personal experience, transcendence, and the currency of retrospection. Alongside recent contemporary photographs and a video installation, earlier iconographic works are brought back to the fore in times of political polarisation over migration, culture, and gender. | | | | | |  | | | Inuuteq Storch
From the series Flesh, 2022/2024
© Inuuteq Storch, 2024 | | | | | | In Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, which is being shown for the first time in continental Europe, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (*1977, MX) offers a multi-layered time travel of identity, drawing on her Indigenous knowledge, the exploitative effects of the industrial revolution, and Spanish colonial casta paintings that imposed racist social hierarchies.
The provocatively staged photographs of Jürgen Klauke (*1943, DE) explore sexuality and diversity in his Transformer series. Through colourful tableaus he creates multiple identities that subvert role codes and playfully break through boundaries of conformity.
Joy Gregory’s (1959, GB) nine-part Autoportrait from 1990 explores the photographic process and self-empowerment as a response to representations of Black female beauty. Gregory’s perspective is expanded with photographs from the Objects of Beauty series (1992–1995). They question women's pursuit of changing ideals of beauty and the meanings of contemporary objects of beauty. Her works are being shown in Germany for the first time.
Inuuteq Storch’s (*1989, GL) Keepers of the Ocean (2022), which captures everyday life in his native rural Greenland, is juxtaposed with Flesh (2019), images made in New York City that reveal the alienation and aspirations of an emerging youth. This is the first exhibition in Germany for Storch, who is represented in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year.
In the world premiere of The Ghost Orchid Gesture, Dinu Li (*1965, HK) presents his own mother – ninety-three at the time of filming – as an ageing enigma, meandering cautiously through various gardens in the blossoming exuberance of spring, restaging her memories, transforming from one creature to another. | | | | | |  | | | Jürgen Klauke
Transformer, 1973/2024
3-part
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers and Jürgen Klauke | | | | | | With their works, the artists reveal that identity consists of more than just one image. Identity is constantly evolving through ancestry, memory, experience, place, and emotion.
The RAY Echoes concept was developed jointly by Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation), Alexandra Lechner (freelance curator), Celina Lunsford (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt), and Matthias Wagner K (Museum Angewandte Kunst). | | | | | |  | | | Dinu Li
The Ghost Orchid Gesture, 2021
Film still
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