Evoking Reality highlights contemporary strategies that distance themselves from established principles of representation and photojournalism’s popular narratives. Strategies that create open images in which reality is experienced as a fragile construct that continuously changes its form from different perspectives, resulting from ambiguity, contradiction, interconnectivity and relativity. |
The recently acquired twelve-part photo series Congo Democratic (2006) by Guy Tillim (‘Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art and Culture’ in 2004), is on display in Berlin for the first time alongside photographic works by Jane Alexander, Clément Cogitore, Tacita Dean, Cao Fei, Pieter Hugo, Maya Zack, as well as the video installations Snow White (2001) by Bernie Searle, Mermaids [Erasing the Border of Azkelon] (2011) by Sigalit Landau, and The amorous Indies (2017) by Clément Cogitore. |
