Not Conceptual. Life
Not Conceptual. Life is a portrait series about non-normative gender roles and life models that contrasts the world of images that surrounds us.
For the realization people, that live and act beyond stereotypical social and gender roles and move beyond normative patterns of behavior, were portrayed in two ways:
First they were photographed in the studio, where they cited iconographic images that correspond and reinforce stereotypical norms, for example portraits of Marilyn Monroe lying on a bed, barely clothed, or Mark Wahlberg grabbing his crotch, wearing only a pair of underpants.
Second they were photographed documentarily, giving insight in their everyday life.
Each series of a person is accompanied by a quote, provided by the person portrayed, to give a deeper understanding of their own terms of definition.
The series consists of 30 studio portraits. and 52 colored documantary photographs.
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The series was exhibited, among many other places, at the European Month of Photography in Berlin and at the Kunstverein Familie Montez in Frankfurt am Main. Four portraits are part of the Art Collection of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment.
Art print edition: per motif 5 pieces, each size: 60x40cm and 120x80cm (plus each size 2 artist prints) Material: Printed on „Photo Lustre“ by Canson, laminated on Aludibond, sealed with acrylic glas.
