Fotoboutique ‹Salome›
65 Rue du 4 Septembre, 13200 Arles
Exhibition ParisBerlin›Fotogroup
01/07 – 07/07 2024
finished!
The name ‹Salome› stands for erotic seductive power as well as unscrupulous cruelty, because Salome paid for the beheading of John the Baptist with a provocative dance performance in front of her uncle King Herod. ‹Salome› is also the feminine form of the name ‹Solomon›, which in turn goes back to the word ‹Shalom›, ‹peace›.
The ParisBerlin›Fotogroup transforms the ‹Boutique Salome› into the ‹Photoboutique Salome› for a week and shows a group exhibition by the photographers Renko Recke-Morlon, Torsten Schumann, Andreas Trogisch and Barbara Wolff. Her works are dedicated to the oddities of life on four different continents and revolve around what separates and connects people everywhere: faith, consumption, crime as well as humor, friendship and enjoyment. The images come from hot spots in world politics: China, the USA, Israel and Europe, all of which are entangled in diverse collaborations and conflicts.
In his series, Renko Recke-Morlon shows moments of seduction in everyday life in the big city. A fleeting glance, a bright neon light, a lightly covered body – here our attention becomes a commodity that is fought for by any means necessary.
Torsten Schumann puts pairs of images together and shows his fragmentary views, condensed into complex image montages of urban life in China between 2020 and 2022.
Andreas Trogisch shows images from his series ‹Is-Real›, which were taken on several trips to Israel between 2007 and 2014 and translate the tensions of this country into the poles of black and white/light and shadow. Everywhere you can feel that this is an ‹unholy› piece of land that has been bloodily fought over for thousands of years and that will probably not come to rest until the end of the world.
Barbara Wolff shows images from her book ‹New York, Sidewalk Closed›. In search of the city’s patterns, she finds the cathedrals of urban life. The competing viewing platforms serve more for self-promotion than for the view. Self-awareness trips in the middle of urban canyons and temples of consumption are questioned and led to the absurd.
