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BLOW-UP (#MeToo)

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:12:58 +0000

In BLOW-UP (#MeToo), artist and art historian Claudia Christoffel takes a contemporary look at Antonioni’s much-cited 1967 film.
Reproducing the dialogue of the introductory scene between the photographer and the model in the film’s own font, she addresses the humiliating perspective and degrading language the photographer’s film character is using within what is actually conceived as a professional working situation.
At least since MeToo, the gender-specific power position of producers and directors in the film and creative industries has been discussed widely.

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Supernatural 2021

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:45:35 +0000

The portraits of athletes were taken during the Olympic Games among others in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008) and London (2012) photographed from a television screen. The singular Olympic Games idea, the particular competition situation directly before the decisive sporting performance, the moment of concentration and the question of the identity and development of… Continue reading Supernatural 2021

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Enkel

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 25 May 2021 11:48:19 +0000

Following Katrin Kamrau’s exhibition 18 x 24 cm (Tique Art Space, Antwerp), Enkel gathers a series of images discovered by the artist in the Lieven Gevaert archive in Mortsel (Belgium). This book reproduces these worksheets — photographs and dimension specifications for their reproduction — used in the context of a traveling exhibition; entitled Vastberaden Vrouwen [Resolute women], celebrating the centenary of the International Council of Women. This event was organised in 1988 by a collective gathered around Denise de Weerdt, Belgian historian and gender studies pioneer. Katrin Kamrau reproduces this proof sheet, heretofore preserved in the archives, in the form of a spiral-bound notebook oscillating between photographic and archival practice in which the document is composed of the photographic miniatures as well as their surrounding indications. While highlighting the material dimension of her support, Katrin Kamrau draws attention to the incomplete remnants of a herstory of feminism. — Marie Lécrivain

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The forgotten mobilization

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:20:08 +0000

The forgotten mobilization is dealing with the relationship between historiography, gender and urban space using the example of Lutherstadt Wittenberg using different media. The artist deals with alternative narratives within the existing historiography and the utopian potential which can be applied to them. On the basis of a fictitious historical scenario The general strike of women of Wittenberg on 4 May 1987 Luise Schröder asks “what could have happened”. On one hand, the memorial plaque designed for public space recalls this fictitious historical event, while simultaneously discussing the conditions of historiography and historical narratives. The typeface design Friedlaender especially designed for the plaque by Reymund Schröder, is a homage to the Jewish font designer Elisabeth Friedländer, who worked in Germany in the 1930s. The double-sided poster provides information on the reasons and the course of the strike. As installation The forgotten mobilization is supplemented by a video that presents suggestions by citizens of Wittenberg to the question which women of Wittenberg should be mentioned on possible memorial plaques in the city. This public survey was carried out by the artist in the run-up to this work.

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