Nina Poppe
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Robert Morat Galerie presents Nina Poppe «Ama» and Cara Phillips «On Beauty»
The exhibition ON BEAUTY consists of two photographic series by the American artist Cara Phillips. Her work focuses on the question of beauty, an idealized concept of beauty and narcissism. In the series of portraits titled »Ultraviolet Beauties«, Cara Phillips makes use of the same ultraviolet technology as dermatologists and beauty surgeons do to reveal the second skin lying below the epidermis. These images reveal very sun spot, freckle and pigmented disorders which are normally invisible, thus capturing all imperfections when compared to standard beauty ideals. The second series „Singular Beauty“ is a typological analysis of interiors. Showing medical instruments and treatment rooms in plastic surgery clinics or medical practices, her work documents the frightening medical expenditures nece... - Exposition
Nina Poppe present "Ama"
Photographer Nina Poppe (Germany, 1979) has spent a significant and intensive amount of time together with the Ama. These legendary fisherwomen of the Japanese island of Ise-Shima dive for Abalone, using no equipment, in water that is up to 30 metres deep. Abalone is a type of sea snail that is considered a delicacy and that commands high prices. The diving is dangerous and tiring, yet the divers often continue to practise their trade into old age.
Within this centuries-old tradition a big shift is occurring; more and more young women choose life in the cities instead of diving. The abalone are becoming scarcer too, due to the water temperature rising as a result of climate change. In contrast to earlier photo reportages about the Ama that concentrated on the diving itself, Poppe's work emphasise...
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The exhibition ON BEAUTY consists of two photographic series by the American artist Cara Phillips. Her work focuses on the question of beauty, an idealized concept of beauty and narcissism. In the series of portraits titled »Ultraviolet Beauties«, Cara Phillips makes use of the same ultraviolet technology as dermatologists and beauty surgeons do to reveal the second skin lying below the epidermis. These images reveal very sun spot, freckle and pigmented disorders which are normally invisible, thus capturing all imperfections when compared to standard beauty ideals. The second series „Singular Beauty“ is a typological analysis of interiors. Showing medical instruments and treatment rooms in plastic surgery clinics or medical practices, her work documents the frightening medical expenditures nece...
Photographer Nina Poppe (Germany, 1979) has spent a significant and intensive amount of time together with the Ama. These legendary fisherwomen of the Japanese island of Ise-Shima dive for Abalone, using no equipment, in water that is up to 30 metres deep. Abalone is a type of sea snail that is considered a delicacy and that commands high prices. The diving is dangerous and tiring, yet the divers often continue to practise their trade into old age.
Within this centuries-old tradition a big shift is occurring; more and more young women choose life in the cities instead of diving. The abalone are becoming scarcer too, due to the water temperature rising as a result of climate change. In contrast to earlier photo reportages about the Ama that concentrated on the diving itself, Poppe's work emphasise...