Panorama-Photographs from Chicago/ Illinois are facing a long multi-exposed panorama of Hooksiel/ Wangerland. What is bringing those images together is not only Klaus W. Eisenlohr's past residency in both locations, but the questioning of architecture, of places and public space. The artist, photographer and filmmaker states a found "desire for modernity" in the development of the city and the urbanisation of the rural town, which both are "under pressure from both pre- and post-modern forces." In well-composed images of every-day surroundings, thus "Familiar Spaces", Eisenlohr shows emotional states rather than documents. In this sense, his films, which have been shown on two occasions during the exhibition, and his photographs complement each other: The very own body sets the starting point, the point of vue for a personal statement in the urban discourse, which otherwise is often driven by the self-reference of media. |