Jörg Herold
22 Jan - 12 Mar 2011
JÖRG HEROLD
SIEG
January 22nd - March 12th, 2011
Since late 2008 Jörg Herold is working on a series of pictures of a fictively created country. In a loose alignment of overpainted copies of ethnographic photographs he questions the unknown and foreign with a critical eye. His work thereby implies a view on processes of extinction of long-term relationships on all levels of social structures.
Under the theoretical superstructure of "post-colonial transformation" he analyses diverse forms of identity in a local and global context, aspects of violence and their impacts on nature and environment. In images, sculptures and texts he documents the accelerated conversion of social and cosmological organisations. The works question conceptions of physicality and ritual patterns of marginalised people.
In an 8-week-long journey through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos Jörg Herold shed light on indigenous constructions of communities as well as their interactions between the "central" and "peripheral" society.
In 2006 and 2007, a similar approach made him travel to the cradle of European civilization: the Caucasus, a region full of contrasts in culture, religion and customs, deeply rooted in century-old traditions. There he searched for the origin of Europe, glancing at the pristine, the beauty of wilderness, the alleged paradise of God. But the turmoil of several conflicts has left deep scars in this paradisiac place and some disputes are still not settled.
In light of this, Jörg Herold felt the challenge to "dig" into the soils of quiescent history and bare the roots of memories - the artists' intervention as a witness. The journey to South-East-Asia followed these conceptual ideas and approaches again.
Back from his trip, Jörg Herold has reviewed and artistically interpreted the observations he made in situ. In his function as "Documentation-archaeologist", as he calls himself, he thereby tries to deduce an artistic depiction of South-East-Asian communities by the means of Ethnology and its findings on the variety of people and capture the impacts of regional folklore on the status quo of our globalised system.
A central task of "Documentary Archaeology" is to reveal the potentials of memory for the future and highlight them in the conflict between the ethics and aesthetics of presentation. In that context the project shall be repeated in 10 years time to complete, broaden and save the observations in the cultural memory.
SIEG
January 22nd - March 12th, 2011
Since late 2008 Jörg Herold is working on a series of pictures of a fictively created country. In a loose alignment of overpainted copies of ethnographic photographs he questions the unknown and foreign with a critical eye. His work thereby implies a view on processes of extinction of long-term relationships on all levels of social structures.
Under the theoretical superstructure of "post-colonial transformation" he analyses diverse forms of identity in a local and global context, aspects of violence and their impacts on nature and environment. In images, sculptures and texts he documents the accelerated conversion of social and cosmological organisations. The works question conceptions of physicality and ritual patterns of marginalised people.
In an 8-week-long journey through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos Jörg Herold shed light on indigenous constructions of communities as well as their interactions between the "central" and "peripheral" society.
In 2006 and 2007, a similar approach made him travel to the cradle of European civilization: the Caucasus, a region full of contrasts in culture, religion and customs, deeply rooted in century-old traditions. There he searched for the origin of Europe, glancing at the pristine, the beauty of wilderness, the alleged paradise of God. But the turmoil of several conflicts has left deep scars in this paradisiac place and some disputes are still not settled.
In light of this, Jörg Herold felt the challenge to "dig" into the soils of quiescent history and bare the roots of memories - the artists' intervention as a witness. The journey to South-East-Asia followed these conceptual ideas and approaches again.
Back from his trip, Jörg Herold has reviewed and artistically interpreted the observations he made in situ. In his function as "Documentation-archaeologist", as he calls himself, he thereby tries to deduce an artistic depiction of South-East-Asian communities by the means of Ethnology and its findings on the variety of people and capture the impacts of regional folklore on the status quo of our globalised system.
A central task of "Documentary Archaeology" is to reveal the potentials of memory for the future and highlight them in the conflict between the ethics and aesthetics of presentation. In that context the project shall be repeated in 10 years time to complete, broaden and save the observations in the cultural memory.