Parodos
Bärbel Praun
5 p.m. 28th November, 2014 is opened an exhibition “zero in on” by two artists: Gabrielė Jogėlaitė and Bärbel Praun, who are residenting at KCCC A-I-R since 1st November, 2014.
The exhibition “zero in on” brings two international artists together and demonstrates their methods of working in diverse mediums that require attention to process and making. The topics of investigation question the importance of belonging to a place. Also, it refers to the way of living in unsettled cultural locations that both of the artists are experiencing: encircling, moving, travelling between here and somewhere else.
zero in on ‒ focus, plan, target, try, attempt, aspire, concentrate, contemplate, level, purpose, strive and steer.
Bärbel Praun (1978, Germany) graduated in photography at University of Applied Sciences in Biefeld, Germany. She currently lives everywhere yet nowhere. Exhibitions in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg, Artist in Residencies in Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Lithuania and Switzerland.
Since I’ve never lived and worked in one place for more than some months over the last years, I have been asking myself questions about home, origin, memories and identity: how does a place/scene come into existence?
By loading it with sentiments, needs, habits? By building a house, filling it with objects? Does the concept of home still have relevance in the light of countries growing together, borders disappearing, and the speed and frequency in which we travel from one place to another?
For the ongoing project ‘favourite places’ I ask local people for their very own favourite place, where they might feel connected in a certain way and feel comfortable at.
Project “Travel Agency“ . The residents involved in ″Travel Agency″ are suggested to reflect on the Klaipeda region and the city, to write diaries and keep their ″route accounting″, which equates the residency to travel agency engaging in cultural journeys.
The topics of the artworks are going to explore two issues: the first relates to the cultural identity that we derive from the personal and collective experience; the second deals with representations of personal experience stories and the construction of conceptual “message” by means of not formal documentation, but a cultural event that causes the reaction of the local community and incorporates it into the process. The project highlights the quest for Utopia in architecture, the time slip, gender and national identity.
The project is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
www.baerbelpraun.de
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