| | | | | | | | | Loredana Nemes: from the series "IMMERGRÜN", 2020 | | | | | | Immergrün | | | | 15 May – 19 September 2021 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loredana Nemes: from the series "IMMERGRÜN", 2020 | | | | | | Berlin artist Loredana Nemes photographed her recent series "Immergrün" as artist in residence in Ludwigsburg during the summer of 2020. The photographer portrayed long-standing couples from Ludwigsburg and juxtaposes them with photographs of evergreen plants and lyrical texts. With this project, Nemes continues her collaboration with the museum, for which she had created the series "Blütezeit" with portraits of young people and blossoming trees in the spring of 2012.
Almost a decade later, Nemes devotes herself to the third age, which is rarely depicted in a positive light in society or the arts, and finds new modes of expression. Fourteen couples in their late sixties to mid-nineties responded to her newspaper advert. The partners are portrayed in familiar, intimate togetherness that expresses itself in an affectionate look or a light touch. She focuses on faces, hands, legs or a neck and, like a lover herself, traces the beauty of age, engraved like a landscape. | | | | | | | | | | Loredana Nemes: from the series "IMMERGRÜN", 2020 | | | | | | "Immergrün" is an unusual document of the Corona pandemic in the summer of 2020: in a time of social distancing the photos shot by Loredana Nemes touch us through the interpersonal closeness evident in them. To prevent infections, this closeness between persons and generations has been increasingly rare. The portraits speak of the trust that was given by the couples to the photographer, allowing her to be a witness to their love.
Oh, you tilted ones!
How to do this staying, this everloving?
I don’t know.
I want to copy you,
lay myself into your wild enrapturing river bed
and float in nothing but drenched nightwear.
Significant for Immergrün is the use of the double exposure technique; the portrayed step individually, one after the other, in front of the camera, the film is exposed twice, so that the two bodies overlay, their parts seemingly interfused let the partners merge. The couples have entrusted Loredana Nemes with their life und love stories during very emotional encounters. However, they are only revealed by their first names to the visitors. Loredana Nemes' black-and-white photographs capture the observer’s imagination.
The exhibition catalogue published by Hartmann Books is available at a price of 34 Euros (112 pages, English booklet included). | | | | | | | | | | Loredana Nemes: from the series "IMMERGRÜN", 2020 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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