Juliane Eirich
dal 7/11/2013 al 24/1/2014
Segnalato da
7/11/2013
Juliane Eirich
Galerie f 5,6, Munich
What the artist presents is an undiluted view that aims to capture the first impressions of an unfamiliar place. The body of photos 'Itoshima' needs to be read as a step further towards a deceleration in picture making.
This November Galerie f5,6 presents the second solo show of photographer Juliane Eirich. With 'Itoshima' the artist presents new work that came about during her stay in Itoshima, Japan, while she attended the artist-in-residence program of Studio Kura.
"I see my photographs as architecture- or flora-portraits. There are two palm tree photos, for example, that I think look like family portraits. While, the houses are characters, they evoke stories. They stand for a certain era or for a certain biography."
The photographs of Juliane Eirich’s stay in Itoshima could possibly forgo without any classification of time and locality. There is no evidence of the tragedy that befell Japan a couple of weeks prior to her arrival and originated only a few kilometres away. What the artist presents is an undiluted view that aims to capture the first impressions of an unfamiliar place. After her previous project ‘Korea Diary‘, consisting of daily photographic entries during her stay in South Korea, the body of work ‘Itoshima‘ needs to be read as a step further towards a deceleration in picture making.
"I am very strict in regards to my photography, and I choose my images very carefully. I do not take many photographs, and I really knew what I wanted to do with those that I did take. Sometimes the images come to me. I pass by and they urge me to take their photo. Like when you pass people and they ask you to take their picture."
Juliane Eirich was born in Munich, Germany in 1979. She studied at the Academy of Photographic Design in Munich from 2000 to 2003. After graduating she moved to New York City and then Honolulu to work and pursue her own projects. She received a DAAD scholarship to study at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea from early 2007 until the end of 2008. In 2011 she spent one month at the artist in residence program of Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin since 2010.
Parallel to the exhibition, Juliane Eirich’s first book, also titled 'Itsohima', will be published by Peperoni Books, Berlin.
Image: Moth, Itoshima 2011
Opening Friday November 8, 2013 – 6 to 9 pm
The artist will be present
Galerie f 5,6
Ludwigstr. 7, 80539 Munich
Hours:
Wed-Fri 12 - 6 PM, Sat 11 AM - 3 PM