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26/4/2002

Reinhild Beuther

Focal Point Gallery (old location), Southend-on-Sea

Reinhild Beuther is an artist who uses photography as a means to a very specific end. In a body of work which engages with mood and personal context she fully embraces the camera's ability, in combination with the arsenal of digital media available to today's practitioners, to create its own truth.

The gallery will be dominated by a series of large-scale transparencies displayed as lightboxes. The transparencies overlay and combine the facial features of individual members of her own family including her parents, her partner's parents, herself, her partner and their infant son. The production process, which Reinhild has employed, has resulted in a series of images which are simultaneously both alien and familiar, simultaneously male and female and at the same time possessed of a range of different moods, personalities and moments.

Reinhild has been resident in the UK since 1997 but was born and grew up in the former East Germany. Like many migrants to the UK she possesses the heightened consciousness of the 'outsider' and the sense of displacement, which attends it. The unstinting purity of vision that Reinhild has developed is focussed in this new work on the tightly controlled environment of the personalities with whom she is most familiar.

BEHOLDEN is a new commission and is the first in a series of collaborations with the University of Hertfordshire Galleries. A full colour catalogue accompany the show.

Focal Point Gallery Victoria Avenue Southend-On-Sea SS2 6EX Essex
monday - friday 9am - 7pm. sat 9am - 5pm
admission free

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