Reelleti Scheck
St.-Marien-Kirche Frankfurt (Oder)•Aug 14, 2021 — Sep 25, 2021
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For the first time, the artist Eric Meier presents recent works in his hometown of Frankfurt (Oder). Eric Meier’s subject is the East German city. In black-and-white photography, he depicts urban spaces and architectural fragments into which signs of post-socialist transformation and the loss of a constructed social utopia have been inscribed.
The photographs thus become indicators of an urban condition in flux, shaped equally by individual mythologies and collective recodings or reconfigurations.
Although Frankfurt (Oder) is often the point of departure for his photographic investigations, Meier is not concerned with documenting a specific city. Rather, he employs a quasi archival-sociological approach, observing and describing post-socialist urban spaces through photography. The human figure is mostly absent, yet made visible through its civilizational traces, imprints, or gestures. In this way, Meier articulates, on a visual-aesthetic level, a sense of emptiness or a semantic gap…
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Reelleti Scheck
St.-Marien-Kirche Frankfurt (Oder)•Aug 14, 2021 — Sep 25, 2021
Press Release
For the first time, the artist Eric Meier presents recent works in his hometown of Frankfurt (Oder). Eric Meier’s subject is the East German city. In black-and-white photography, he depicts urban spaces and architectural fragments into which signs of post-socialist transformation and the loss of a constructed social utopia have been inscribed.
The photographs thus become indicators of an urban condition in flux, shaped equally by individual mythologies and collective recodings or reconfigurations.
Although Frankfurt (Oder) is often the point of departure for his photographic investigations, Meier is not concerned with documenting a specific city. Rather, he employs a quasi archival-sociological approach, observing and describing post-socialist urban spaces through photography. The human figure is mostly absent, yet made visible through its civilizational traces, imprints, or gestures. In this way, Meier articulates, on a visual-aesthetic level, a sense of emptiness or a semantic gap…
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