Hautsache
Group exhibition, FOTO GALERIE WIEN as Guest at the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
Part of the European Month of Photography Berlin
2 February - 21 April 2023
with:
MAXIMILIANE LENI ARMANN
ALEXANDRA BAUMGARTNER
DANIEL HILL
CLAUDIA LARCHER
OLENA NEWKRYTA
RAPHAEL REICHL
CARLOS VERGARA
Work exhibited: My Loneliness Adds Beauty to Life & Intimation
Exhibition text: Skin marks our borders and keeps us in shape. However, it is permeable on both sides: our contact with the outside world is through it, we breathe in and out through it and sense touch and temperature by it. And does it count also as touch when a projected image falls on the retina via the pupil? And if so, does that mean a picture is a feeling of warmth or coldness? The skin, the visible surface of a subject, can be both peeled off and captured by a camera. Even if photographs often appear two-dimensional and disembodied, the works in HAUTSACHE reveal the fine gradations, the profundity of our most superficial organ.
The FOTOGALERIE WIEN exhibition with the title, HAUTSACHE, brings together seven photographic and filmic positions. The works deal with remembered and imagined contacts, the desire for (and impossibility of) closeness and intimacy. Invited artists of various origins have all chosen Vienna as the setting for their artistic work. They deal with conflicts associated with perception and loneliness as well as gender and sexual identity. As part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin, the works are seeking reaffirmation in a dialogue with the European art photography scene.
Daniel Hill is showing photographs from two series of self-portraits. The first is My Loneliness Adds Beauty to Life in which he examines feelings of contentment but also the fears evoked by loneliness. In the second, Intimation, he shows performative self-portraits that demonstrate how he sees himself, how he wishes the world saw him, or how the world might see him. This allows him to investigate his sexuality, emotions and fears. The concern is always with the relationship between his body and the social notions of masculinity and femininity, queerness and beauty.
