Rage Against the Machine

WUT MACHT LUST marks the first joint exhibition of the Female Photoclub’s Hanover branch. Using a diverse range of approaches, the represented artists have trained their lens on some of the political, societal and economic structures of our time.

In her series Matrescence, Sofie Puttfarken addresses the social judgements, expectations and obligations associated with the idealisation of motherhood. Amelie Sachs also questions existing gender roles in her project Der Dieb der Weiblichkeit (The Thief of Femininity), including the enduringly patriarchal views on women’s health in the field of gynaecology. In her photographic essay Fragile as Glass, Sitara Thalia Ambrosio documents the situation of queer individuals in Ukraine, while Shirin Abedis portrays young Iranian dancers in her long-term project May I Have This Dance?. 

Franziska Gill’s series Von Freud und Leid des Principe Azzurro (The Joys and Sorrows of Prince Charming) explores how men in her native Italy benefit from stereotypical gender roles, yet also suffer as a result. Simona Bednarek’s Wut Will (Rage Wants) conveys the different relationships women have developed with their own anger.

China Hopson’s 2er Pack centres on female skaters and their relationship with their boards. In You can be anything(?), Claudia Krahne asks whether women in modern-day Germany really have access to any career they want – not just in theory, but also in practice. 

Three of the presented projects revolve around personal relationships: with All I Remember, Annika Weertz shares a landscape of memories surrounding her parents’ divorce. Leona Ohsiek places her focus on the conflicts between parents and their adult children in her series Splitted – whereas Thea Marie Klinger reflects on people’s sense of belonging in their mid-twenties in I wish the waves were easy on you. 

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