Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto
Kunstraum München•Sep 07, 2024 — Oct 20, 2024
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The exhibition Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto takes us on a journey through time, from the industrial to the digital revolution, in search of traces of images from the past that continue to resonate with us today and point to the future: pictures that already exist, perceptions that we have, and renderings that are created by us or by technology. In video works, photographs, and analytical visualizations, Anne Quirynen and Sandra Schäfer explore the question of how a region, its landscape, industrial and agricultural uses have changed over time. The multidisciplinary works lead us from the Minas de Riotinto in Spain, one of the oldest copper mines in the world, through Westerwald, Germany, where August Sander initiated his photographic project »Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts« (People of the Twentieth Century), to the planet Mars. In »Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto«, Quirynen and Schäfer combine both documentary and technically edited images to...More
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Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto
Kunstraum München•Sep 07, 2024 — Oct 20, 2024
Press release
The exhibition Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto takes us on a journey through time, from the industrial to the digital revolution, in search of traces of images from the past that continue to resonate with us today and point to the future: pictures that already exist, perceptions that we have, and renderings that are created by us or by technology. In video works, photographs, and analytical visualizations, Anne Quirynen and Sandra Schäfer explore the question of how a region, its landscape, industrial and agricultural uses have changed over time. The multidisciplinary works lead us from the Minas de Riotinto in Spain, one of the oldest copper mines in the world, through Westerwald, Germany, where August Sander initiated his photographic project »Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts« (People of the Twentieth Century), to the planet Mars. In »Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto«, Quirynen and Schäfer combine both documentary and technically edited images to...More