ba-de-re-constructionsII-projekte
2015 de-reconstructions II, The Württembergische Kunstverein, colour photographs
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2012/2015 colour photograph 60 x 90 cm
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2012/ 2014 Ohne Titel, Untitled, colour photograph, 40 x 60 cm. The Württembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart
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2015 de-reconstructions II, installation view, The Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
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2012/2015 colour photograph 70 x 100 cm, The Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
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2012/ 2015 Framer's Workshop, colour photograph, 30 x 45 cm. The Württembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart
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2011/ 2015 Untitled, colour photograph, 30 x 45 cm. The Württembergischer Kunsverein, Stuttgart
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2015 de-re-constructions II, exhibition view,right Barbara Armbruster, left and back:Hala Elkoussy
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Starting point for the project de-re-constructions II is a body of work, which took its beginnings in 2012. The artists Barbara Armbruster and Hala Elkoussy tried to gain the most independent perspective possible on the metropolis Cairo.The aforementioned series of photographic images was focusing on Cairo´s urban space. By combining singular impressions and fields of view a subjective ‚Gesamteindruck’ was recorded.While striving through the city the view was searching for complexity in the banal. The Querungen are showing a reflection of the works which already were produced. Images already archived were looked through a second time. New image combinations came up.Furthermore the images are made attainable for new juxtapositions which only were thinkable of after a second sighting. Reflection of the material already produced as well as new production, de-construction and re-construction are the poles in between which de-re-constructions II is situated. The work´s concept thereby can be read as a metaphor for Cairo- a metropolis on the move.