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| Gerhard Valentin, Bruno on the "Highland Patriot" on his way to Brazil,1937 |
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Berlin <> Rio |
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| Routes and Memories |
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| Exhibition and book project: 4 May – 29 July, 2018 |
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Opening: Thursday, 3 May, 7pm
Introduction: Dr. Andreas Krase
Curator's talk: Thursday, 17 May, 7pm
Andreas Valentin/Andreas Krase |
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| unknown, Judy und Gerhard Valentin, app. 1947 |
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| "Berlin<>Rio: Routes and Memories" is an exhibition and book project which addresses the lifeline of a family, its cohesiveness, and its survival across five generations throughout different political and cultural systems. It explores the effects contemporary history has on individuals and the ways people find to survive when their world comes apart. It is also a project about migration and remigration, arrival in a foreign land and return to the country originally left in anguish. Above all, however, "Berlin<>Rio" tells the story of what it’s like to lose one’s home, as an exile to turn to the home within oneself and as such become a source of hope. |
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| Gerhard Valentin, Martha Valentin on the Spree close to Reichtstagsgebäude, Berlin, 1975 |
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| The exhibition’s curator, Dr. Andreas Valentin lives in Rio de Janeiro and is a fifth-generation Valentin. He employs visual materials as historical sources in order to make his autobiographical traces of the past visible in the present. Through the dialogue between the photographs and documents on display, which primarily stem from the family’s archive, as well as films and re-enactments in the form of his own contemporary photographs, he created a narrative that allows us to take part in the family’s life-story. |
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| Andreas Valentin, opening Gerhard Valentin’s slides packet, Winterthur, 2014 |
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Andreas Valentin’s narrative enables us to experience different layers of image production. Apart from their aesthetic qualities, they can also be understood as social practises and point towards the usages of photography itself.
A catalogue is published accompanying the exhibition. |
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| Gerhard Valentin, taken in Itatiaia, 1941 to 1945 |
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