discussing photography
may 2010
central week
17–22 may
The exhibition »Fake & Real« brings together the works of three contemporary photographers, Ville Lenkkeri, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond and Andrew Phelps who, each in their own way, examine the relationship between photography and reality. In the course of the 20th century growing subjectivisation, amongst other things, led to photography being less and less limited to the depiction of reality. The fact that photography increasingly considered itself an art in its own right was also one of the reasons for the development from merely depicting reality to reinventing it. In their works the three photographers play with our perception of reality – nothing in their works is fundamentally false, nothing is fundamentally real.
Curator: Rémi Faucheux
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond: China Air And Water pollution 2001–2006, 2007 from the Monuments series,
© Mathieu Bernard-Reymond., Courtesy 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart.
Andrew Phelps: Baghdad Suite, 2008 © courtesy Gallery Robert Morat
Ville Lenkkeri: Jungle in the Making (Kiev, 2007) 100 × 125 cm, Courtesy: Maerz Galerie, Leipzig/Berlin and Gallery Taik, Berlin
