Cora Pongracz: 8 erweiterte portraits with Seiichi Furuya
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Sep 21, 2025 — Oct 26, 2025
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The first dialogical exhibition expands Cora Pongracz’s 56-part series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with two serial cycles of works by Seiichi Furuya. Since the 1970s, the Japanese photographer, who lives in Graz, has been using the medium of photography to process personal experiences and processes of remembering and (non-)forgetting in a multi-layered visual project. In numerous exhibitions and artist books, he combines portraits, especially of family members, with photographs of living spaces, travels and everyday situations.
The series Portrait, 1978–1985, shows Furuya’s wife Christine Furuya-Gössler, whom he photographed for the first time in 1978 – and thereafter almost daily over a period of seven years. In 1985, after a prolonged period of mental distress, Christine Furuya-Gössler took her own life. She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1980s. After her death,…
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Cora Pongracz: 8 erweiterte portraits with Seiichi Furuya
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Sep 21, 2025 — Oct 26, 2025
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The first dialogical exhibition expands Cora Pongracz’s 56-part series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with two serial cycles of works by Seiichi Furuya. Since the 1970s, the Japanese photographer, who lives in Graz, has been using the medium of photography to process personal experiences and processes of remembering and (non-)forgetting in a multi-layered visual project. In numerous exhibitions and artist books, he combines portraits, especially of family members, with photographs of living spaces, travels and everyday situations.
The series Portrait, 1978–1985, shows Furuya’s wife Christine Furuya-Gössler, whom he photographed for the first time in 1978 – and thereafter almost daily over a period of seven years. In 1985, after a prolonged period of mental distress, Christine Furuya-Gössler took her own life. She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1980s. After her death,…
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