No fashion, please! : Fotografie zwischen Gender und Lifestyle = Photography between gender and lifestyle

Kunsthalle Wien, 10. November 2011 bis 22. Januar 2012
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" No fashion, please! the rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty characterizes the second show of the Kunsthalle Wiens autumn program focusing on photography and fashion. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. The selected photographers are rooted in the tradition of body art and strongly rely on references to installations, ceremonies, and rituals. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments. In the context of the exhibition, clothes and other products of the fashion industry only figure as fragments of a narrative mise-en-scene thematizing the dreams concerned with a changing aesthetic of the body and its ideals. The media strategies employed are manifold and span from staged photographic images, projections, and performances to body sculptures, video and film works."