Stephanie Kiwitt I WANT TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST
17 Jan - 28 Feb 2009
Ausstellungsansicht / installation view
2009, Galerie b2_
2009, Galerie b2_
Ausstellungsansicht / installation view
2009, Galerie b2_
2009, Galerie b2_
Komplex
2009, 170 x 130 cm
C-Print, gerahmt
2009, 170 x 130 cm
C-Print, gerahmt
Vektra
2009, 170 x 130 cm
C-Print, gerahmt
2009, 170 x 130 cm
C-Print, gerahmt
Arkadien
2009, C-Print, gerahmt
170 x 130 cm
2009, C-Print, gerahmt
170 x 130 cm
M 6071
2009, 38,8 x 29 cm
Laser Print, tapeziert
Edition
2009, 38,8 x 29 cm
Laser Print, tapeziert
Edition
Highlander
2009, 111,5 x 83,5 cm
Inkjet Print
2009, 111,5 x 83,5 cm
Inkjet Print
The consumer world has long since dispensed with the simple display of commodities for everyday use. Shopping miles court us with architecture, product design and the aesthetics of advertising in an attempt to market theme worlds. With a narrative eye, Stephanie Kiwitt picks up on the aesthetic of these locations and photographs shop windows and their displays.
She combines and condenses her motifs and image planes into absurd-comic stories that allow things to abandon their context and scale. Her images seem like the science fiction notions of our previous generations turned into reality or the trash of the future.
The surfaces of her work in colour and in black and white are conscious combinations of technoid processes. Kiwitt inverts, plots in colour on colour or fixates the textures of simple contemporary prints.
The title I WANT TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST, itself a shop window motif, is a call to live in the now or a compulsive premise of the need to be ahead of the time. With an indulgent wink, Kiwitt challenges us to be wary of visions and formal projections. Welcome to the present.
She combines and condenses her motifs and image planes into absurd-comic stories that allow things to abandon their context and scale. Her images seem like the science fiction notions of our previous generations turned into reality or the trash of the future.
The surfaces of her work in colour and in black and white are conscious combinations of technoid processes. Kiwitt inverts, plots in colour on colour or fixates the textures of simple contemporary prints.
The title I WANT TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST, itself a shop window motif, is a call to live in the now or a compulsive premise of the need to be ahead of the time. With an indulgent wink, Kiwitt challenges us to be wary of visions and formal projections. Welcome to the present.