Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

The cityscapes and sceneries in Petra Karadimas' photographic works are of suggestive force. Her unique image language at the intersection between photography and painting unsettles the ever-present gaze on familiar everyday situations towards a slight displacement of perception. Petra Karadimas places the reality manipulating aspects of photography in the center of her endeavors. She eliminates the photographic grain by using a digital brushstroke, replacing the photographic trace through painterly means and classical compositions. Her images of seemingly remote situations -east-german buildings, billboard ads, construction fences, shrubbery or graffiti- conceptualize an image of the city that oscillates between the real and the virtual, thus reframing the urban. With her works Petra Karadimas takes a stand in the debate about virtuality and reality and questions the very processes of image generation. 'Sexy Helden, starke Action' (Sexy Heroes, strong Action) presents Karadimas' cityscapes 2003-2006 for the first time. For the exhibition the BrotfabrikGalerie Edition No. 15 by Petra Karadimas will appear. Exhibition tour with Petra Karadimas and Petra Schröck will take place on May 5 at 8pm