In the exhibition “Barbara Wolff : Photographs“ at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, works from the sequence “Biography“ (1982 – 1989), “Metropolis“ (2018 – 2020) as very well as “Amazonia“ (2019) will be demonstrated in collaboration with Collection Regard Berlin.
In the series “Biography“ she observed lifetime on equally sides of the Iron Curtain. Like few photographers, she has been ready to reflect on her images and encounters on both facet of Germany – before the drop of the wall. Preset points in Barbara Wolff‘s operate are constantly information of biographical times in her lifetime in the GDR and in the FRG. In capturing those photographic times billed with own and subjective importance, Barbara Wolff‘s shares her personal planet of encounter. At the literally decisive second, the photographer succeeds in sensitively capturing her subjects in superior photographic good quality and in well balanced compositions. At the similar time, Barbara Wolff‘s artistic language has a robust humanistic element. Numerous photographs exhibit us people in their instant and uncompromising dignity, in the pressure amongst strength and fragility.
The collection “Metropolis“ displays the city house in the 21st century. The images notify of inhabitants and their urban natural environment. Styles of the metropolis emerge, networks of relationships between people today, architecture and (true or synthetic) character. It is about the transformation of the city, about provocation and chaos. The concept is to understand solution spots but also to share visions.
We take a look at S-Bahn stations, Berlin waterways, graffiti partitions and complete procuring malls, but also see the famed (vacant) Berlin squares and stand in entrance of the closed doorways of techno clubs in the Corona calendar year 2020. At first posted on Instagram, Wolff´s Berlin photos from the Metropolis collection are assembled in the book METROPOLIS posted by the publishing dwelling LUNIK BERLIN.
Barbara Wolff found the motives for the collection “Amazonia“ in the course of her keep for an exhibition in Belém, Brazil 2019. The heat and humid tropical weather and existential environmental and social conditions ascertain the lives of the folks. Wolff‘s images explain to of love and function and days when the boundaries among the two blur.
Barbara Wolff utilizes distinctive strategies and formats – from smartphones to large structure 4×5 inches cameras. She herself made the b/w prints presented in the exhibitions, for the reason that for her “the visuals are what remains”.
Barbara Wolff (*1951) grew up in the GDR and researched images at the Academy of Fantastic Arts Leipzig. In 1985 she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Her absolutely free photographic works have been proven in Berlin (2017, 2020, 2021), Arles (2018, 2021), Vendome (2019), Geneva (2019), Belém (Brazil, 2019) and Paris (2021) and they are present in countrywide and global collections. The photographer life and works in Berlin. (www.barbarawolff.eu).
Barbara Wolff – Photographies
du 7 Mars au 13 Mai 2022
Goethe-Institut Bordeaux
35 Cours de Verdun
F-33000 Bordeaux, France
The exhibition can be witnessed from Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. by appointment at [email protected] and by person arrangement outside of these moments.
