Theatrum mundi

Carina Linge

The Jarmuschek+Partner gallery presents a new series by Leipzig-based photographer Carina Linge titled Theatrum mundi. In this series, the artist portrays a generation of people free to move around the globe and with infinite educational opportunities – but whose confusion, fear, and unfulfilled longings reflect the downside of the freedom this worldwide modernity offers the individual.
To gain insight into our present age, Carina Linge looks back to times of change ranging from the Baroque period to the Enlightenment. She has created metaphoric and symbolic images at historic locations such as the Goethe Theatre in Bad Lauchstädt, showing both the outer representation and the hidden emotional world of the protagonists. The photographs thus reveal subtle insights into these two different worlds of the persons portrayed, unleashing a fragile balance between sensuality and passion, emptiness, loss, and mortality within the existential realm of experience as it is lived by modern individuals.