The shiner

Nadja Bournonville, Grit Hachmeister

The exhibition brings together two artists, each of whom harbours doubts about the purely reproductive nature of the photographic image. While Hachmeister found her way via drawing and painting and combined these with photographs, some of which she painted on, to create entire walls of image clusters, Bournonville takes another path, manipulating negatives and orchestrating mistakes in the photographic process, working with photography’s fundamental elements, light and darkness.
In addition to their shared doubts, it was their leaning toward poetry, toward the humorous and surreal that led to the joint exhibition. The focus here is on the body, whether it be human, animal or thing. It’s about expansion and isolation, flaws that are flaws no longer, bruises, skin as a perforated surface. The beautiful thing about LORIZA’s programmatic approach is that it calls upon artists to work off each other, even at the risk of leaving the scene with a black eye. We look forward to the happy friction.