October 22th until November 19th
every Thursday 17-19 o'clock
‘Life cannot enter the image “as it is”. The moment it becomes an image, it has externalised itself and become something else.’2
In the exhibition ‘Reconstruction of a Reality’, Leonie Lass deals with the production of images. Lass understands these as a construct of staging routines, patterns of perception, circulation processes and reception traditions that shape their meaning. Through photography, she scrutinises the constitution and structures of spaces as well as the medium itself.
Based on found visual material, Lass examines lived realities: Digital images, which are often distributed through online platforms, are taken from everyday environments:
People advertise furniture and fixtures, with their living spaces and often their reflected mirror images unintentionally becoming part of the image. Of particular interest to Lass at this point is the surface of the TV, which, as an originally passive device for reproducing images, itself becomes an image carrier through its reflective surface. This reflection manifests the person in the room, the room itself or even the act of photographing — elements that Lass subjects to a new examination of image perception.
Leonie Lass extracts this image material and creates an archive. She transforms the digital photographs into analogue prints and presents them framed behind anti-reflective museum glass. At the same time, these works are visible 24/7 through the reflective shop window glass and expand the boundary between inside and outside, private and public.
2 Steyerl, Hito, Die Farbe der Wahrheit. Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld, Turia + Kant, Wien, 2015 (Auflage 2015), S. 93.