© Brigitte Konyen
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In her photo collage series, '"Snapshots", Brigitte Konyen is engaged in examining the religiously influenced, conservative forms of behaviour and the coercions of previous generations from which succeeding generations have liberated themselves. Taking her female forebears as the point of departure, she derives generally applicable social traditions, conventions and codes of behaviour. The basis is provided by family photos which she fragments. Using bodily parts from women of differing epochs she produces images that convey a surreal impression. The ritual actions that are rendered visible in the staging, gestures, poses and the relevant fashionable appearance are those that control and define the female body.
© Petra Noll-Hammerstiel 2019
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