f虏 Fotofestival 2023: Dis/appear
Starting point of the exhibition is the idea of total visibility of the world through photographic images. However, their sheer mass and immediate dissemination ultimately makes everything depicted equally unimportant, almost invisible.
So what can photography still achieve in this day and age? The exhibition brings together artists whose works radiate a presence that arises from an intensive and usually long-term engagement with their respective subjects. They thus form an antipole to the quickly consumed, consistently fleeting visual imagery that characterizes our everyday lives.
In view of the theme of the f虏 photo festival "globality", the selected works reflect conflicts of today 鈥� collage-like layers of images of worldwide crises spread via news and social media channels (Lisa Hoffmann), traces of past (Henning Rogge) and hints of future warlike violence (Johanna-Maria Fritz), the attempt to visually capture radioactive contamination in Fukushima (Yoi Kawakubo), the poetic depiction of places where people 鈥� beyond worldly conflicts 鈥� have chosen to live apart from society (Matthew Genitempo), to the confrontation with a site that has become synonymous with unresolved personal conflicts (Sascha Weidner).
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Starting point of the exhibition is the idea of total visibility of the world through photographic images. However, their sheer mass and immediate dissemination ultimately makes everything depicted equally unimportant, almost invisible.
So what can photography still achieve in this day and age? The exhibition brings together artists whose works radiate a presence that arises from an intensive and usually long-term engagement with their respective subjects. They thus form an antipole to the quickly consumed, consistently fleeting visual imagery that characterizes our everyday lives.
In view of the theme of the f虏 photo festival "globality", the selected works reflect conflicts of today 鈥� collage-like layers of images of worldwide crises spread via news and social media channels (Lisa Hoffmann), traces of past (Henning Rogge) and hints of future warlike violence (Johanna-Maria Fritz), the attempt to visually capture radioactive contamination in Fukushima (Yoi Kawakubo), the poetic depiction of places where people 鈥� beyond worldly conflicts 鈥� have chosen to live apart from society (Matthew Genitempo), to the confrontation with a site that has become synonymous with unresolved personal conflicts (Sascha Weidner).
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