Masha Matzke - APHANISIS

Bodies and faces captured on celluloid or photographs become subjects of a silent mechanization and pathologization. APHANISIS engages with the origins of modern subjectivity and otherness in the shadowy realm of 19th-century photographic darkrooms. The reciprocal relationship between the photographic gaze, the consciousness of the modern subject, and its hegemonic pressures to dominate "the Other" fatally shapes the discourse on illness and madness, whose staging stimulates a fascination with the abnormal and a desire for social exclusion and segregation.

Live Act Vernissage: Joanna Gemma Auguri (vocals, accordion) Songs about Gypsies, lost ships, and lost souls. A fragile, delicate, melancholic world. Fog on lakes, the moon lingers, light shines through.