Doris Lasch/Ursula Ponn: If you don't create your own history, someone else will
27 Mar - 14 Jun 2009
Doris Lasch/Ursula Ponn: "Through the back door of a public secrecy", 2004
b-w polaroid amplified by screen printing
120 x 178 cm
Edition 15, 2006
courtesy: the artists
b-w polaroid amplified by screen printing
120 x 178 cm
Edition 15, 2006
courtesy: the artists
Doris Lasch/Ursula Ponn: If you don't create your own history, someone else will
27.03. - 31.05.2009
Opening: 26.03.2009, 7 pm
The photographic, film and installation works of Ursula Ponn (*1965, Bad Aibling) and Doris Lasch (*1972, Landsberg) reveal a great sensitivity for the complex interconnection between perception, representation, recollection and truth. The direction in which one looks is always important as to how the past is presented. This is decisive too for the way in which history is written as well as for the resulting developments in terms of political or cultural decision-making.
Within the scope of their exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Ursula Ponn and Doris Lasch will examine how history and especially its role in the context of art, is instrumental in shaping a construct and how this in turn manifests itself. Moreover, they refer to concrete examples and deal with the historical and institutional validity of artistic activities that have been eagerly staged for the purposes of questioning the established art system and its criteria. In so doing, one’s focus towards the past comes into play in the exhibition, so as to scrutinize artistic production in the tension-filled area of constantly varying contexts. Here the concept of the retrospective also gains a new perspective in such a way that one’s view turns back to face ahead. By means of diverse media, Doris Lasch and Ursula Ponn will create a new installation that directly relates to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. This approach is in keeping with the way they have been working together since their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as well as at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, taking in the various works that came into existence over the past years. Similar to a mirror, reproduced time capsules will be opened that present themselves to the viewer, akin to the theatre as a play within a play or in art as an image within an image. Fiction and reality thereby enter into an alternating relationship.
27.03. - 31.05.2009
Opening: 26.03.2009, 7 pm
The photographic, film and installation works of Ursula Ponn (*1965, Bad Aibling) and Doris Lasch (*1972, Landsberg) reveal a great sensitivity for the complex interconnection between perception, representation, recollection and truth. The direction in which one looks is always important as to how the past is presented. This is decisive too for the way in which history is written as well as for the resulting developments in terms of political or cultural decision-making.
Within the scope of their exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Ursula Ponn and Doris Lasch will examine how history and especially its role in the context of art, is instrumental in shaping a construct and how this in turn manifests itself. Moreover, they refer to concrete examples and deal with the historical and institutional validity of artistic activities that have been eagerly staged for the purposes of questioning the established art system and its criteria. In so doing, one’s focus towards the past comes into play in the exhibition, so as to scrutinize artistic production in the tension-filled area of constantly varying contexts. Here the concept of the retrospective also gains a new perspective in such a way that one’s view turns back to face ahead. By means of diverse media, Doris Lasch and Ursula Ponn will create a new installation that directly relates to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. This approach is in keeping with the way they have been working together since their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as well as at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, taking in the various works that came into existence over the past years. Similar to a mirror, reproduced time capsules will be opened that present themselves to the viewer, akin to the theatre as a play within a play or in art as an image within an image. Fiction and reality thereby enter into an alternating relationship.