Marion Bornscheuer – författare

In the most recent works of photographer Gudrun Kemsa (*1961), all of New York becomes an enormous backdrop. From bustling everyday life in the big city, she highlights interpersonal scenes in which the anonymous protagonists take action amidst the urban architecture as if in a film: in a rush, waiting motionlessly in front of boutiques or at intersections. Kemsa's photographic series make individual motion sequences visible. With the contrast between natural and artificial light, she models people and architecture in dramatic tableaus, impressive moments of stillness, or enraptured, strangely timeless conditions.Text in English and German.

The elements of Astrid Lowack’s (*1969) photographic-artistic transcendence are light, movement and water. As the driving forces of life they relentlessly bring about change and reflect our innermost being –our feelings and experiences. Her snapshots remain thereby constant imaginative challenges to human perception.Astrid Lowack’s photographs are experimental mirrors of the emotional world. They visualise consciousness and unconsciousness, abysses and metamorphoses. Our fears and apocalyptic chaos appear in a new perspective, and so does paradisiacal equilibrium. The artist explores unknown ways of thinking and worlds of feeling and immerses herself through her photographic works in the individual experiences of humankind.