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

URBAN STAGE

Groups, scenes and other performative social structures

loftgalerie für Fotografie im Atelier LawickMüller

LawickMüller: Biker Bonus
2009 © Lawickmüller / loftgalerie.de
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LawickMüller show urban space as the stage for self-presentation and aesthetic distinctiveness, as a locus for the processes of identification and group formation. Public places and insider niches of the city environment serve as adventure playgrounds or spaces of self-stylisation, in which a group identity can be developed.

Their coming together may be purposeful or coincidental, regular or fleeting but the togetherness of groups and in-crowds is invariably defined by unambiguous codes and badges of identity or by affinity to a particular place.

The large-format tableaus of the Urban Stage series trace the performative practices of social groupings in the urban milieu. Taking numerous photographs of the urban backdrop and the groups that appear there as a starting point, LawickMüller construct a panorama with a typical moment par excellence for each of the scenes on which they focus.

In connection with the exhibition, loftgalerie Peter Gregor offers tours of the LawickMüller studio.

For further information please visit: http://www.lawickmueller.de/ or

call +49 30 49914450.