Between the Worlds
Between the Worlds
December 29, 2014
Refugee Camp, Burundi 1995
© Mirko Krizanovic
After all, who would ever equate Siberia to the Mali desert, or the banking metropolis of Frankfurt/Main to the 200-souls village of Sainte Marie-en-Chanois, in the 1000-lake region of Franche Comté? The same holds true for the idea of place and time: In 1996, Krizanovic captured a Chechen man who, during a demonstration against Russian occupation in Grozny, had climbed on a plinth as a mockery of Lenin. The photograph could just as easily have been taken 50 years before.
The painter Gesa Emde experiences the same dichotomy. The news keep her in touch with international developments, while she tackles the daily challenges of country life. In her work, she attempts to reconcile both worlds within the emotions and expressions of visual art. As a result, large-scale events such as the Tsunami catastrophes in 2004 and 2011 are addressed in the artist's etchings and aquarell paintings.
The juxtaposition of realities only heightens the significance of the quiet beauty of nature – both in photography as well as in painting.
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Refugee Camp, Burundi 1995
© Mirko Krizanovic
Grozny, Chechnya, 1996
© Mirko Krizanovic
Hutu Refugees in the Magara Camp, Burundi 1995
© Mirko Krizanovic
Tsunami 2011
© Gesa Emde
Habemus Papam
© Gesa Emde