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June 13, 2012
The blurb to the Lost Places. Sites of Photography exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle art museum says that artists have adopted different approaches by which to present the subject-matter of "space" and "place" in an era of historic change and social crises.
One of the photographers exhibiting is Sarah Schönfeld and the work being exhibited is from the Wende Gelände project.
Sarah Schönfeld, Wende Gelände 01, 2006
This project is a photographic interpretation of important places from Schönfeld childhood that fell into decay as a result of the Wende [the collapse of communist East Germany and the creation of a unified German state] and the subsequent structural changes. Fifteen years after the Wall came down I revisited these places in what used to be East Berlin: my school, my kindergarten, the local swimming pool, the amusement park, the Kreiskulturhaus (cultural centre) and the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic). One-point perspective and symmetry are used in a vain attempt to hold the disintegrating sites together.
Sarah Schönfeld, Wende Gelände 05, 2006
Fifteen years after the Wall came down she revisited these places in what used to be East Berlin: her school, kindergarten, local swimming pool, amusement park, the Kreiskulturhaus (cultural centre) and the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic).
One-point perspective and symmetry are used in a vain attempt to hold the disintegrating sites together.
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