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Burnout at blue hour, fine art print, 50 x 70 cm, 2014
Exhibition
Lotte Reimann - Blue jeans, Burning rubber
10 Mar 2016 – 9 Apr 2016
Address
- Bergfriedstraße 20
- Berlin
Berlin - 10969
- Germany
Travel Information
- Moritzplatz
Blue jeans, Burning rubber (2016) combines two previously existing "fabricated nonfiction" works by Lotte Reimann, presented alongside each other so as to expose the compatibility and symbiosis in their subjects and objects.
About
Bold yet subtle, Reimann's images navigate between the light and the loaded, resulting in a condensed dose of eros and psyche. Inspired by the likes of JG Ballard, John Fante, David Cronenberg and Ulrich Seidl; Reimann creates two parallel narratives displayed as coercive materializations of worlds generally unknown to 'passerbylife,' perhaps even forbidden.
Bodies displayed at their prime: frozen in a moment of ecstasy. Our most sensual of natures presented as motion pictures which, in fact, do not move. Despite the heavy, alluring reality of sex, Reimann manages to elevate carnality to the level of jaunty persuasion. These images are not peepholes into the private lives of fetishist individuals but rather flauntful displays of the pleasures of skin against leather, against soaked denim, against asphalt and under the sun. If ever addressing skin on
