Tracing Echoes. : Last chance

The exhibition "Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto" takes us on a journey through time from industrialisation to the digital revolution, on a search for traces of images from the past that still resonate today and point to the future: Images that already exist, ideas that we have and images that are created by us or by technology.

In video works, photographs and analytical visualisations, Anne Quirynen and Sandra Schäfer explore the question of how a region, its landscape and its agricultural and industrial use have changed over time. The multidisciplinary works range from the Minas de Riotinto, one of the oldest copper mines in the world in Spain, to the Westerwald, where August Sander's photographic project "People of the 20th Century" began, to the planet Mars.

Through the interplay of documentary and technically processed images, Quirynen and Schäfer create a unique and unique visual experience in "Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto", Quirynen and Schäfer create a visual narrative about the influence of technology and capitalism on agriculture, mining and research, as well as their representations. At the same time, they trace the subtle paths of hidden facets of (gender) inequality, the effects of artificial intelligence on physical labour and questions of social justice that come to light in the process.

What traces do the landscapes bear of the people who live(d) there? Through which practices of research, utilisation and colonisation do people inscribe/inscribe themselves in them? What is the relationship between industrial exploitation and scientific analysis? How and in what way do the landscapes resonate in the images that exist and are generated of them? Which real scenarios do they depict and which speculative utopias do they reveal?

Last edited on 30.08.2024