黑料不打烊

In Eternal 20th Century, Johne stages a delicate choreography of images and gestures that retrace the landscapes of history through the body, pointing at the threshold of presence and erasure. In times of war, the exhibition speculates on a century of conflict that refuses to end, insisting that history, under the crushing weight of its repetition, remains inscribed in the body and psyche like an after-image鈥攆ragile, exposed, yet enduring. Johne opens up space for associations that are crucial to the realization of its claim: to create metaphors of being and to conceive alternative myths in times when violence and its effects permeate every aspect of public and private life.

Sven Johne is one of the most important representatives of engaged, conceptual photography鈥攈is work spans text-image as well as spatial and cinematic works. Often based on travels and location-specific research, his works systematically explore the relationship between the experiential and the familiar, and the representability of their historical, emotional, and psychological dimensions. His visual worlds deliberately seek a state of uncertainty, a shift in the status of the images that opens towards opacity in order to make use of their possibilities and productions of meaning. In the process, it becomes clear that documentary images are not exclusively an element of the visible but that a fundamental dependence on words and knowledge is inscribed upon them.