Wim Wenders
dal 15/9/2015 al 13/11/2015
Segnalato da
15/9/2015
Wim Wenders
Blain|Southern, Berlin
Time Capsules. By the side of the road. The exhibition brings together photographs of Germany and America, the two countries that have most influenced the artist throughout his career.
Blain|Southern Berlin is delighted to present new and recent photographs by Wim Wenders, the artist’s first exhibition in his hometown in over half a decade. The exhibition brings together images of Germany and America – the two countries that have most influenced the artist throughout his career.
The title, Time Capsules. By the side of the road, alludes to the relationship between memory and photography, highlighting the ability of photographs to act as a medium that captures an essence of the past and preserves it for the future. Several of the works in the exhibition feature places that have long-since changed, the images themselves therefore becoming portals into lost moments or spaces. Wenders speaks of how: “I see myself as an interpreter, as a translator, a guardian […] of stories that places tell me.”
The exhibition fosters a dialogue between the two countries in which Wenders has spent extensive periods of time living and working: “I think I had wide-open eyes for America, and ‘the American landscape’ in a general sense seemed extremely attractive to me, both as a photographer and filmmaker. Maybe the long absence from Germany of 15 years has enabled me to see places here with the same wide-open eyes. What has remained the same: in those landscapes, German or American, I’m still looking for the traces of civilization, of history, or people.”
Image: Wim Wenders, Drive-in at night, Montréal, Canada
Press Contact:
Laura Callendar, laura@blainsouthern.com
Press Conference: 16 September 2015
11am-12pm Q&A with Wim Wenders
12pm-1pm Press Preview
Blain|Southern
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