Dear friends of the gallery,
We are very pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Ich denke auch Familienbilder ” by Linn Schröder on Friday, October 27, at 6PM!
The images in Linn Schröder’s photographic series “Ich denke auch Familienbilder” (I Also Think Family Pictures) deal with one of the most basic tasks of photography, which is to capture and record memories. Family pictures are photographs that help us remember and often even create memories. They can also be images that only exist in our heads, created through stories and our own imagination. Linn Schröder combines these two thoughts in a poetic way and creates pictorial worlds which, through their surreal, magical, and often staged imagery, tell of astonishment, uncertainty, and perhaps even unease.
Linn Schröder traveled to Poland with her twin daughters and followed the footsteps of her mother-in-law, who had to flee to Germany as a young girl during World War II and passed down her experience in stories. This creates a connection between three generations: the grandmother, the mother, and the daughters. She also photographed a befriended family with twins at regular intervals and the boy next door, whom she encounters again and again. Schröder often works in black and white, which gives the images an air of universal validity. Seemingly identical nature shots that repeatedly interrupt the narrative flow reinforce this timelessness. At the same time, Linn Schröder’s work points far beyond personal experience. Associative images emerge that tell stories in themselves and tell us something about our humanity. In this photographic work, these worlds of thought are given an intense, mysteriously dreamlike, poetic stage.
Linn Schröder, born in 1977, has been a member of Ostkreuz-Agentur der Fotografen since 2004 and is a professor of photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg since 2016. Her work has received numerous awards and is exhibited internationally. “Ich denke auch Familienbilder”, her first book, was published by Hartmann Books in 2021.
Opening Reception on Friday, October 27, 6-9PM
Exhibition from October 28 to December 21, 2023