Under Pressure
dal 31/10/2013 al 29/3/2014
Segnalato da
Tatiana Lecomte
Arno Gisinger
Klaus Fritsch
Markus Oberndorfer
Oliver Ressler
Heidrun Holzfeind
Lukas Birk
31/10/2013
Under Pressure
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Politics in contemporary photography. This exhibition, which consists predominantly of new acquisitions from the past 5 years, deals with the fact that images can serve to spark off critical discourse on present-day conflicts, as well as to fuel confrontation with our own history.
Political action is never free from emotion. Every revolution needs strong feeling. All "isms" – from fundamentalism through nationalism, to racism and sexism – instrumentalise both emotion and rational thinking. Nevertheless, public – as opposed to private – political space is still fixed in the collective consciousness as a place of reason.
This is a persistent thought-pattern which can be broken down only superficially with the classic instrument of reason – as for instance through language or academic discourse. How else? This exhibition, which consists predominantly of new acquisitions from the past five years, deals with the fact that images can serve to spark off critical discourse on present-day conflicts, as well as to fuel confrontation with our own history.
As the starting-point of the exhibition, which is divided into several subject areas, Tatiana Lecomte, Arno Gisinger, Klaus Fritsch and Markus Oberndorfer make a study of the perception and reception of history, documenting this in their works. In Closed Cities we are confronted with politically motivated architectural marks in the landscape.
The works of Oliver Ressler and Heidrun Holzfeind show political disobedience and civil resistance; in his installation Kafkanistan, Lukas Birk demonstrates the absurdity of catastrophe tourism in conflict areas such as Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Image: Lukas Birk, Installation: Kafkanistan, 2005-2008, Dara Gun Factory 1, C-Print © Lukas Birk, Leihgaben des Künstlers
Press contact:
Christine Forstner t +43.662.842220601 F + 43.(0)662.842220701 christine.forstner@mdmsalzburg.at - barbara.mcfadden@mdmsalzburg.at
Museum der Moderne
Mönchsberg 32 5020 Salzburg
Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Wednesday: 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
Monday closed
Admission
Adults: € 8,-
Seniors: € 6,-
Children (6 to 15 years): € 6,-
Youth (16 to 18 years): € 6,-
Students (to 26 years): € 6,-
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Family ticket: € 12