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| Trinity © Benita Suchodrev |
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Who Do You Think I Am |
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New Multi-media installation based on a photographic series
Group show Berlin |
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"Imagine"
Free Class Eva Bertram 2017/18 at
Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin
17 November, 2018 – 20 Januar, 2019
Opening: Friday, 16 November, 2018, 7 PM
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| Insomnia © Benita Suchodrev |
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Staged photography involves the artificial construction of a temporary 'universe' for the purpose of the photograph. In this staged universe, the photographer is not only its creator but also its observer. Staging oneself inside this 'fake' universe introduces an additional layer of construction, artificiality and observation. The photographer observes oneself inside this universe and perceives this space and the act as real but the observed self in this artificial construct is as much of an illusion as the construct itself, as the act and the space where it manifests.
The multi-media installation "Who Do You Think I Am" is based on a photographic series of at once ambivalent and striking self-staging scenarios by the Russian-American portrait and documentary photographer Benita Suchodrev, taken in bizarre, thematically designed rooms of a former "Art Installation" hotel in Berlin. The series is built on manufactured "disturbances" of image and space where identity and the 'real' are both questioned and taken for granted.
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| Topsy Turvy, Video Still © Benita Suchodrev |
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| The Cell, Video Still © Benita Suchodrev |
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Surrounded by selected props, the photographer ironically questions her fictitious "quasi-identities", behind whose feminine and glamorous façade flash artificiality, compulsiveness, external control, abundance, solitude and void. Suchodrev wears a skin-colored latex dress that serves as a 'sheath' and second skin that simultaneously protects, exposes and 'confines' her.
Through the digital sequencing and selective animation of individual photographic Stills, the two-dimensional, partially self-reflexive images are vivified and "decomposed", thus creating new aesthetic dimensions of these metaphorical "disturbances of the self" whose ambiguity is in focus here. |
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| The Game © Benita Suchodrev |
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| The Grand Delusion, Video Still © Benita Suchodrev |
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Selected works from "Who Do You Think I Am" will be presented as part of the group exhibition "Imagine"" of the Free Class Eva Bertram 2017/18 at the New School of Photography, Berlin.
17 November, 2018 – 20 Januar, 2019
Opening: Friday, 16 November, 2018, 7 PM
Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin
Brunnenstr. 188-190, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Thu-Sun, 1-6pm |
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| The Innocent © Benita Suchodrev |
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| Topsy Turvy, Video Still © Benita Suchodrev |
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Benita Suchodrev was born in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts with a focus on Art History, followed by a Master’s degree in English Literature, graduating with high honors. In 2008 Benita relocated to Berlin and began an extensive documentation of the cosmopolitan city’s multifaceted art scene while working on diverse photographic projects, which have been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally.
Her photographs have appeared in 48 Hours Blackpool (Kehrer Verlag, 2018), Nachtleben Berlin: 1974 bis heute (Metrolit Verlag, 2013), Berlin Now (teNeues Verlag, 2009) and have been covered by various print and online media. Her portrait and documentary work is part of the Rafael Tous Foundation for Contemporary Art in Barcelona and private collections in Moscow, Berlin and New York. Benita currently lives and works in Berlin. |
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| Sweetheart © Benita Suchodrev |
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| Under Construction, Video Still © Benita Suchodrev |
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