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2/6/2011

Doris Frohnapfel

Galerie b2, Leipzig

Doris Frohnapfel's new artworks are inspired by historical photographs
of international trading floors. They depict the trading floors
blotched with small papers from where the stockbrokers have randomly
dropped their notes. What is abstract in the sense of Marx – the
quality behind the notes – appears objectively on the floor. What is
objective in the photography of the exchanges becomes abstract again
in Frohnapfel's collages and photograms. The artist has staged the
flutter of the notes, and photographs them in order to find new
compositions using these samples. This puzzlement of concreteness and
abstraction could be understood as a symbol of economic powerlessness.
Doris Frohnapfel counteracts this confusion with an artistic
statement: all art is abstract but not without an object. Ultimately,
we come not from nothingness.

For the exhibition project “The Return of Investment” Doris
Frohnapfel engages with the history of mentality of the capital. At
last the artist was concerned with symbols of the abstract
relationship between the capital and the ware - as once they appeared
in the interior space or better interior life of the (New York) stock
exchange. Now Frohnapfel turns towards the surrounding area of the
Wall Street. She lays open historically grown “shifts“ of the
context of trafficking in money and persons. At the beginning of the
18th century a prosperous slave market established on Wall Street. The
perfidy relationship between capital and corpus as well as its
disguise by the abstract terms of the modern financial system - just
imagine the term „human capital“ - substantiate in the historical
shifts on site. So Frohnapfels „archeological artefacts“ become
absolutely current.

Opening Friday June 3, 2011 7pm

Galerie b2_
Spinnereistrasse 7 Leipzig
Wed-Fri 13-18h, Sa 11-17h and by appointment
Admission free

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