Stephanie Kiwitt
dal 16/1/2009 al 27/2/2009
Segnalato da
16/1/2009
Stephanie Kiwitt
Galerie b2, Leipzig
I want to live in the present not the past. Her images seem like the science fiction notions of our previous generations turned into reality or the trash of the future.
The consumer world has long since dispensed with the simple display of commodities for everyday use. Shopping miles court us with architecture, product design and the aesthetics of advertising in an attempt to market theme worlds. With a narrative eye, Stephanie Kiwitt picks up on the aesthetic of these locations and photographs shop windows and their displays.
She combines and condenses her motifs and image planes into absurd-comic stories that allow things to abandon their context and scale. Her images seem like the science fiction notions of our previous generations turned into reality or the trash of the future.
The surfaces of her work in colour and in black and white are conscious combinations of technoid processes. Kiwitt inverts, plots in colour on colour or fixates the textures of simple contemporary prints.
The title I WANT TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST, itself a shop window motif, is a call to live in the now or a compulsive
premise of the need to be ahead of the time. With an indulgent wink, Kiwitt challenges us to be wary of visions and formal projections. Welcome to the present.
Galerie b2
Spinnereistrasse 7 - Leipzig