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| Maisie Cousins, Walking Back To Happiness, 2023 © Maisie Cousins |
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Ray Echoes. Memory |
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| 5th International Triennial of Photography |
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| 30 May – 22 September 2024 |
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| Jana Bissdorf From the series "Wege zum Glück © Jana Bissdorf |
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In its fifth edition, the international photography triennial RAY presents contemporary photography and related media at various exhibition venues in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region. In exhibitions and events, the triennial's artists explore and reflect on challenges and areas of tension in self-perception and human interaction, all under the theme ECHOES: they create an echo that draws attention to their themes.
The exhibition "Ray Echoes. Memory" in The Cube Eschborn shows seven international artistic positions that deal with the role of photography as a carrier of memory. In their works, the artists question how missing or blurred memories can be (re)created using photographic images. They visualise how elastic our memory is when it comes to storing and reproducing the past and show how what we have seen fades and is replaced by new images. |
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Mimi Plumb
Highway 4, from the series The White Sky, 1975
© Mimi Plumb |
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In her series "memories I don't have", German artist Johanna Schlegel searches for a way to visualise missing memories of her childhood. By chemically processing photographs from her family album, she creates blurs on the surfaces of the images that express the gaps in her memory.
The feeling of anxiety and climatic threat that the American artist Mimi Plumb associates with the memories of her youth in small-town Walnut Creek on the US West Coast also permeates the cool photographs in her series "The White Sky".
The German artist Jana Bissdorf creates a connection between different time levels and narratives in her group of works "Paths to Happiness", for which she physically combines found black and white photographs with her own colour photographs, thus building new associative spaces between the present and the past.
In the series "Being there", created together with Lee Shulman (founder of the Anonymous Project), the Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop places himself retrospectively in the snapshots of a white American middle class of the 1950s and 1960s with such playful lightness and irony that the political message of the works is not immediately apparent.
In her work "Her-Story", South African artist Lebohang Kganye revives memories of her deceased mother by superimposing images from her family albums with self-portraits in her mother's clothes.
In "Walking back to happiness", British artist Maisie Cousins uses artificial intelligence to create images of childhood memories that were not captured photographically, in this case those of an amusement park that she often visited.
The work of French artist Sophie Calle revolves around questions of memory and transience and the associated voids in many ways. She shares her inner monologue in touching combinations of images and texts.
The questioning of transience through the medium of photography can also be found in the works of US artist Nicholas Nixon, who portrayed his wife Bebe and her three sisters every year from 1975 to 2022 in the impressive series "The Brown Sisters". |
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Johanna Schlegel
From the series "memories I don’t have"
© Johanna Schlegel |
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| RAY Echoes Memory was curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann. The concept of RAY ECHOES 2024 was jointly developed by Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation), Alexandra Lechner (freelance curator), Celina Lunsford (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt) and Matthias Wagner K (Museum Angewandte Kunst). |
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Omar Victor Diop
From the series "Being there"
© Omar Victor Diop & Lee Shulman/Anonymous Project |
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