ICONIC PORTRAITS II
Looking forward to welcoming
you at my new exhibitionS
Thursday 23.2. - 4.3.23; Andy Warhol in Me, Haze Gallery, Bülowstraße 11, 10783 Berlin
Opening: 23.2. 19-22h, Artist speech at 20 h, Monday - Friday: 11-15h, Saturday: 13-16h
Wednesday 8.3. - 18.3.23; Triumph of the Women, Haze Gallery, Bülowstraße 11, 10783 Berlin
Opening: 8.3. 19-22h, Monday - Friday: 11-15h, Saturday: 13-16h
Saturday 1.4. - 1.8.2023; Ambivalent, Notagallery, Potsdamer Str. 124,10783 Berlin
Opening: 1.4. 19-22h
ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES II
JOAN OF ARC
ICONIC POrtraitS Series II
With the second part of the photo series ICONIC PORTRAITS II, the artist Johanna Keimeyer questions human identity anew. In this analogue photographic metamorphosis, she focuses on various famous figures. The portrayed are icons like Einstein, Dalí, Chaplin, Mozart. For the first time, the artist expands the series with her own interpretations of spiritual personalities, mythical warriors and goddesses who represent a symbol of female power, such as Joan of Arc, Boudica, Buddha, Golden Buddha, Sacred Dancer and Kali.
Keimeyer creates the characters with modern designs such as corsets by Hoermanseder, fetish outfits by Perlensau, Butcherei Lindinger, jewelry by Luise Zücker and outfits by Herr von Eden. The make-up looks represent a large part of the design with which Johanna embodies the characters in front of the camera.
Keimeyer‘s essence represents the interplay of spirituality and art.
“My art also has the task of shifting boundaries of consciousness, and this can of course only be done through emotion, and only with the most essential questions about the meaning of life and death, about faith and about absolute humanity. My art is meant to help people to interpret things freely and a tool to reflect on their perceptions of themselves, to move them emotionally. It is precisely when the boundaries between real and unreal worlds blur that something special emerges, and art fulfills its purpose of making the invisible visible. As an artist, I am always struggling between several worlds, and the art is not to get lost in them.”
These images aim to inspire to find in yourself what you want to fulfill with your life and also leave behind. Every person writes themselves into history. Johanna Keimeyer expresses absolute hope, trust and meaning through the symbolism of the photographs and the theatrical images.
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