Exhibition: "Revenants (Wiedergängerinnen). Photographs by Oskar Schmidt"
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Location
Phone: 202-289-1200
Opening reception on Thursday, September 16, 6 – 8 pm
with photographer Oskar Schmidt
RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 161 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org
Bare, sparsely furnished rooms and introverted women and girls, barely present to their surroundings: the starkly reduced photographs of Oskar Schmidt are both portraits and interiors. Like paper cut-outs, the silhouettes of their bodies contrast against the bleak walls, as mute as the objects in a still-life. The people and spaces seem familiar, but they remain mysterious and slightly beyond reach. These pictures do not focus on the individual characteristics of the places and people, but much more generally on their forms and postures, and on each inconspicuous detail. The women and girls portrayed are revenants, characters appropriated from the history of art and brought back to life in a new medium: photography.
Works by Oskar Schmidt (b. 1977) have been shown in numerous solo and group shows in such cities as Berlin, Barcelona, London, Peking and Zurich. This series was selected for inclusion in the “Talents” series by C|O Berlin, the International Forum for Visual Dialogues.
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9-5; Friday 9-3. No charge.
More: www.co-berlin.com
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Phone: 202-289-1200
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