Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin - Artists (in alphabetic order)

LOST MEMORIES

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Bruno Baltzer: A la gloire de mon père
2010 © Bruno Baltzer
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Both Bruno Baltzer and Armand Quetsch are concerned, in their photographic series, with recollection and forgetting.

Bruno Baltzers series La gloire de mon père [The glory of my father] illustrates metaphorically the resumption of his relationship with his father, who suffers from Alzheimers. Alienation and separation, dereliction as well as sympathy find expression in these photographs, which show the artists father in an empty swimming pool.

Armand Quetsch, on the other hand, explores the places where his grandfather once lived, in a series of expressive and sometimes gloomy pictures. The architectural details of buildings are combined with atmospheric pictures, and plunge us into the world of the past. As if out of the fog, pictorial elements arise timeless and emotionally charged memory fragments. The picture becomes the locus of undefined being, the reference to place now serving only as a pretext for the expression of a state of feeling.