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[email protected] · www.photomuseum.de Helmstedter Straße 1 · D-38102 Braunschweig · Telefon +49(0)531 75000 · Fax +49(0)531 75036
Regine Petersen, Ann, from the series Find a Fallen Star, 2015 Regine Petersen, Eye Witness (Eurice), from the series Find a Fallen Star, 2015
Regine Petersen Find a Fallen Star 13.07. – 21.08.2016
The Museum für Photographie in Brunswick presents Regine Petersen's image series Find a
Fallen Star in her first solo exhibition in a museum in Germany. The trilogy narrates three
exemplary stories of meteor impacts in Alabama (USA), Ramsdorf (Germany) and Kanwapura
(India). Petersen thoroughly investigated these rare and startling events and added
newspaper articles archived photos and interview protocols to her work. By Petersens artful
tale the beholder gets an insight not only into the find spot but also into the fates of people
that are connected to the impacts, the search for the meteorites and the concomitant
accidants.
Petersen's allegoric work in its minimalistic reduced way let the photos themselves speak
and opens up room for philosophic questions about human existence. The impact events
themselves iniate the reflection on the „dichotomy between daily routine and the
fathomlessness of cosmos“ (Peter Lindhorst, PHOTONEWS, 2015). Her documentary-
associative approach becomes the expression of myth, randomness, fate and the secrets of
the extraterrestrial rocks.
Regine Petersen, Masada, from the series The Gospel of Mark, 2016
As a place open for discussion The Museum für Photographie is vividly engaged in the debate
on artistic strategies and approaches. The ongoing display of new works of distinguished
young artists is therefore an important function for the museum.
Thus the exhibition presents not only Petersen's work Find a Fallen Star. For the first time
ever some insights into her new project The Gospel of Mark that adresses an interpretation of
the Gospel of Mark as a literary tract of the jewish-roman war (66 - 70 AD) are given.
Petersen's work focuses on sybolism and the narrative structure of the Gospel of Mark and
comprehends it as a multivalent and subtle literary document in which the surrounding
violence is always palpable. She is following recent historic-allegoric exegetic views that
fathom the gospel as a jewish text with hidden anti-imperialistic meassages.
In their picture language Petersen's photographies reflect the interlocking of the factual and
the mythical, which is characteristic to the medium of photography in her view. The works
create a poetic-symbolistic approach to the Gospel of Mark. In this way The Gospel of Mark
alludes the viewer to the strong contrast of the peaceful galilaen landscape and the martial
brutality of war and shows ambivalent sceneries that can be interpreted in different ways.
Regine Petersen was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1976. She studied Communication Design
at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. In 2009 she received her MA in Photography
at the Royal College of Art in London. She was awarded with the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis
2016 for her work Find a Fallen Star.
Duration of the exhibition 13.07. – 21.08.2016
Opening of the exhibition Tuesday, 12.07.2016, 7 p.m. followed by our summer party
and music with Sonntag & Zatloukal
Press talk Tuesday, 12.07.2016, noon
Exhibition place Museum für Photographie / Torhäuser,
Helmstedter Straße 1, 38102 Braunschweig
Opening hours Tue – Fri 1– 6 p.m., Sat + Sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Guided tours Sundays 4 p.m.
Admission 2,50 € / 1 € reduced
Press contact Christin Müller · 0531-75000 · [email protected]
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