I am delighted to introduce two new images of mine from the series "Critical Distance - a perpetual absence of home":"What Place?" and "Engineered Desire" (both 2009)
Digital c-prints, 37 x 115 cm (~ 14.6 x 45.3 inches)
editions of five (+2 AP)
The images can be seen in Erfurt (Germany) at my small solo exhibition titled after the series opening September 27th, 2009. If you are interested in one or both photographs, or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at contact@danielblochwitz.com.
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Just the shortest of a descriptive blurb for each image:
The image above, "What Place?", is a take on utopia in the context of Heimat, or home/land. Every place I have lived in portrayed itself as a "better world" while the reality was/is, of course, far from it. In this triptych, we look down at a poster of Neuschwanstein castle, in the left image, that asks, "what makes utopia so smooth?" while we gaze upwards at "workers & dreamers" in the right-side image (with a bird and fence structure on the roof). And in between, the middle image simply states, "Well, you've come to the wrong place."
The triptych below, "Engineered Desire", is meant as a juxtaposition of darker political ideologies with the sinister flipside of Western neo-liberalism and post-modernism, namely market fundamentalism and excessive consumption, a culture bracketed by nihilism and hedonism, and the search for a sense of home within it all.
(click images to enlarge)
