Fiona Tan, Vox Populi Tokyo, 2007. Exhibition shot."Privat", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Deutsche Bank Collection. Courtesy of the artst, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo and Frith Street Gallery, London. Photo: Norbert Miguletz. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
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Evan Baden, Emily, 2010. From Technically Intimate.© Evan Baden
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Michel Auder, Keeping Busy, 1969. Film still. © Michel Auder, Courtesy Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
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Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998. Courtesy The Saatchi Gallery, © the artist. Exhibition shot."Privat", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Photo: Norbert Miguletz. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
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Marilyn Minter, Mom Smoking, 1969-1995.From Corel Ridge Towers, 1969-1995. © Courtesy of Andréhn-Schiptjenko
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Mark Morrisroe, Untitled (Tattoo), 1988. F.C. Gundlach Collection/Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg. © Nachlass Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur
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Ai Weiwei, 258 Fake, 2011 (Detail)
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Mark Wallinger, The Unconscious (O), 2010. Detail. © Courtesy carlier | gebauer and the artist
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Michael Wolf, Paris Street View (#27), 2009-2010. © Michael Wolf und Christophe Guye Galerie
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These
are the kinds of photos everyone owns and everyone knows: of weddings,
of vacations, of smiling friends. They are memories in pictures, a
potpourri of 304 individually framed snapshots. Fiona Tan‘s Vox Populi Tokyo (2007) offers a glimpse into the lives of others. Normally, the work hangs on the 31th floor of Tower B of Deutsche Bank’s Head Office in Frankfurt that is dedicated to Tan‘s works. Along with works by Mike Bouchet, who is also a “floor artist” in the Towers, it has moved temporarily to the Schirn Kunsthalle, where it is on view in the Privacy exhibition until February 3, 2013.
The show explores the “public nature of the intimate”. Privacy
– in the times of Facebook and reality TV this almost seems like a
concept from the past. Exhibitionism, self-revelation, and voyeurism
seem ubiquitous. Even in the arts. Showcasing around 30 international
artistic positions, the extensive group show Privacy
explores the fragile boundaries between the public and the private
sphere. Photographs, Polaroids, cell-phone photos, objects,
installations and films show domestic scenes and reveal personal
secrets, familiar and intimate things. Tracey Emin installs her used bed in the middle of the exhibition space, Ai Weiwei shows photos he has posted on his blog and Mark Morrisroe reveals intimate situations from his hedonistic life in the Punk scenes of Boston and New York. Marilyn Minter portrays her own mother, who practically never left the house and whose life took place in bed. The photographs Leigh Ledare
took of his mother Tina Peterson and combines into a complex
psychological tableau fluctuate between eliciting shock and empathy. Evan Baden
addresses the omnipresent culture, fueled by social networks and
digital media, of revealing everything about oneself and has produced
images that show how young girls present themselves on the Net. Like
many works in the exhibition, Baden’s paintings confirm what
sociologists postulate: Today privacy is an illusion. We live in the
“post-privacy” era.
Privat
11/01/12 – 02/03/13
Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt am Main
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