The Sea Remembers
Legacy. Migration. Memory
Ausstellung vom 12. Januar bis 5. März 2017
Eröffnung am 12. Januar
Künstlergespräch am 14. Januar um 17 Uhr
Reception um 19 Uhr
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester, MA 01890
www.griffinmuseum.org
https://griffinmuseum.org/show/rosemarie-zens/
https://griffinmuseum.org/shop/sea-remembers-rosemarie-zens/
Immigrants all!
Elin Spring on elinspringphotography.com (Febr. 1, 2017):
In her series The Sea Remembers, Berlin artist Rosemarie Zens mines the story of her mother’s escape from war in March 1945 while carrying her nursing infant (the artist) in a saga her mother only unburdened many decades later as the Berlin Wall fell. Using antique family photographs as a touchstone, Zens returns to a birthplace she never knew, drawing upon “the existential properties of landscapes” to weave reality and fantasy into oblique and poetic images that transmit the sensation of waking from a dream. Zens’ large color landscapes of her Polish birthplace are highly metaphoric, often capturing a frosty and inhospitable winter that weeps “exile”… continue to read (external link)
Seeing memories with more than the mind’s eye
Photography review in: Boston Globe (Febr. 23, 2017):
The four shows currently at the Griffin Museum of Photography share a single title: “Legacy. Migration. Memory.” They run through March 5. That rubric is a tall order, and in varying degrees it accurately describes each show.
Rosemarie Zens was born in 1944 in a town in eastern Germany that soon thereafter became part of Poland. She returned with a camera 70 years later. Might that history account for the arresting way in which these pictures feel at once connected to the landscape and apart from it? continue to read (external link)
Bilder von der Eröffnung