Pinakothek der Moderne Barer Str. 40 80333 München Allemagne
In Deutsche Bilder - eine Spurensuche German photographer Eva Leitolf turns her attention to racist crimes in Germany and the ways they are discussed in society. In the early 1990s she photographed crime scenes, victims and perpetrators, and uninvolved bystanders. Returning to the theme in 2006, she reduced the visual content to nothing more than the places where the crimes had been commited, combined her images with meticulously researched texts about the events themselves and the way they were dealt with afterwards politically, by the courts, and in the media. Conceived as a long-term study, this group of works produced between 1992 and 2008 challenges the way society deals with racist violence and in the process tests the bounds and possibilities of what can be said visually.
Eva Leitolf, born 1966 in Würzburg, lives and works in Munich and in the Bayerische Wald.