Annette Kisling
dal 26/6/2008 al 8/8/2008
Segnalato da
26/6/2008
Annette Kisling
Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Les vitrines. The shop windows of the early 21st century in her current b/w series
"Annette Kisling photographs unintelligible things with utmost lucidity. In her current b/w series, "les vitrines", these are the shop windows of the early 21st century, embedded in the bourgeois facades of Paris's inner boroughs-commodity stages arranged for optimal visibility. In Kisling's work, however, their purpose is lost. Here the gaze expands to capture both the interior and the exterior, that which lies behind the windowpane and that which it mirrors: cars, trees, sky, building facades, street alignments. Everything stands side-by-side and simultaneously permeates everything else. This is necessarily so, yet the principle underlying this order is difficult to name. Annette Kisling calls this principle "layering", and by this she refers also to an intertwining of history and the present. Here, the historical building fronts are also simply a facade. Paris, unmistakably the capital of the 19th Century, serves as a scenic backdrop to the present." Henrik Ghanaat