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13/11/2006

Nadja Verena Marcin

Kapinos Galerie, Berlin

Lend me your doberman

Kapinos Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the artist Nadja Verena Marcin. In curatorial collaboration with the art historian Greta Gesenberg and on the occasion of the European Month of Photography, the artist will exhibit her large-scale photography, light-boxes and video works for the first time in a gallery exhibition.

The photographic scenes, in the vein of self-portraiture, are detail-rich, still portraits of a person with subtle, even existential desires that are embodied in the form of seemingly naive beauty.

In the series of images displayed herethat thematically converge toward landscapethe artist, in portraying herself, appears deep in the recesses of the fairy-tale landscape, dreamily lost beyond the vanishing point, beyond the center of focus. When taking the costumed self-portraits in the inner-rooms, like “Burogirl" or “Turnstunde" into consideration, it becomes evident that these images are not only about self-portraiture but also role-playing.
The light-boxeswith their open display of sexuality and hard contrasts in glaring pink, black and perhaps allergic white skinmaintain their cool in spite of these basic conditions. And despite exposing her own body, the integrity of the subject and her ability to maintain intellectual authority over the situation is never called into question by the viewer. This accounts for the intrinsic peaceful quality of these photographic works.

In her dynamic video-works and performances, Marcin discusses and broaches themes concerning different states of beinglinked to the role-playing in the photographsby acting out various choices and decisions, mostly playing the person opposite herself.

Whether this self-referentiality is understood as philosophical statement, social-critique or as a necessary personal escape is not revealed. Marcin doesn’t use the fundamentally larger narrative potential of video in a strict linear way. Her photo works, on the other hand, must make due with the triggering of associationsor have the advantage of unleashing this imaginative spacein the mind of the viewer.
Repeating and returning themes, such as the search for balance or intense relational bonds, offer the viewer a chance to enter into the realm of the artist’s personality.

Thus, in coming to terms with the artist’s work, the viewer can gain an understanding of the simultaneously constructive and destructive potential of man’s characteristic, often dialectic moods.

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Novalisstr. 15 - Berlin
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