AfterImages (from America)
Atelier für Fotografie
Kai-Olaf Hesse: National Atomic Museum Albuquerque
© Kai-Olaf Hesse
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'After Images from America' presents the omnipotent 'pre-image' of the postwar western world in 'after-images' in photographs where what is presumed past is cancelled while at the same time what exists is documented and interpreted. The work conveys visions of the 'American dream' with all its contradictions, under the headings of politics (Washington), the automotive industry (Detroit), the bomb (Los Alamos) and the cinema (Hollywood), and insinuates the hallucinatory character of contemporary worlds of suggestion.
The more clearly the distance between dream and reality emerges, the more intensive the wish for it becomes as also does the formulaic quality of the graphic worlds discovered by the photographer and detectable in the pictures.
'After Images from America explores sensuous connections significantly not excluding symbols and places that seem to have an established association with the emptying of the senses, but which acquire a new perspective as a result of the chosen pictorial idiom.' (Gerhard Lenz)
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Artist(s)
Kai-Olaf Hesse
Curator(s)
Jörg Steinbach
Duration of the exhibition
8.11. - 12.12.2008
Vernissage
7.11.2008, 19 h
Finissage
12.12.2009, 19 h
Opening times
So 14-18 h
and by arrangement
Location
Atelier für Fotografie
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Str. 19
10407 Berlin
T 0049 173 9524982
Public transport connections
M 10 Arnswalder Platz;
M 4 Danziger Straße / Greifswalder Straße;
S Greifswalder Straße
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