| | | | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett: Circular, 2019. Archival Pigment Print, 96 x 66 cm, Ed. 3 + 1 AP | | | | | | Open Equations | | | | 7 September — 19 October, 2019 | | | Opening reception: 6 September, 6—10 pm
Introduction: Friederike Fast, Curator, Marta Herford | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett: Convexity, 2019. Archival Pigment Print, 96 x 66 cm, Ed. 3 + 1 AP | | | | | | In her most recent work, Laura J. Padgett continues her exploration into public and private space and the places in between. The way in which we structure and delineate our environment is always an expression of our relationship to society and is coincident to the visual. In many situations the gaze replaces our physical ability to enter a particular location.
The artist’s main theme remains photography’s ability to depict things while fostering conceptual narratives that can be experienced by means of perception.
How do we understand surfaces and space? How do we consciously negotiate these complex conditions? The visible, lines, colors, shapes and structures also express peoples’ relationships to their immediate surroundings and living conditions. The photographs open up these spaces, making them navigable.
The films and photographs shown in the exhibition have been produced during the last two years and thematise the relationship between the still and the moving image as well as between public and private space. The shifts between image and depiction, the notion of presence, in addition to questions regarding perception, are ongoing themes in Padgett’s work and address our relationship towards the visual and the narrative. | | | | | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett: Holding Pattern, 2019. Archival Pigment Print, 66 x 96 cm, Ed. 3 + 1 AP | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett (b. 1958 in Cambridge, USA) received her BFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She continued her studies in film and photography with Peter Kubelka and Herbert Schwöbel at the Städelschule from 1983 to1985 and received her MA in Art History and Aesthetics in 1994 from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, both in Frankfurt am Main.
Since the 1990s Laura J. Padgett has produced a complex body of work. She exhibits widely, while also participating in international film screenings. In addition to her exhibiting activities, the artist regularly writes on film, art and aesthetic theory. Since 1990 she has taught and lectured at various universities, among them Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Paderborn University and the Hochschule-Rhein-Main in Wiesbaden. Most recently she lectured at the German Jordanian University in Amman. Laura J. Padgett lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.
Her work is held in various major public and private collections, including Städel Museum, Graphics Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, DZ BANK Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Museion, Bozen, The Sir John Soane Museum, London, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Dommuseum, Mainz, Museum Simeonstift, Trier, and Museum Wiesbaden. | | | | | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett: Seventy, 2019. Archival Pigment Print, 66 x 96 cm, Ed. 3 + 1 AP | | | | | | Friederike Fast, b. 1975, is a curator at the Marta Herford Museum and has curated numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She publishes widely on contemporary art.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with photographs by Laura J. Padgett and texts by Friederike Fast and Robert Egert. | | | | | | | | | | Laura J. Padgett: Turbulence, 2019. Archival Pigment Print, 96 x 66 cm, Ed. 3 + 1 AP | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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