PRIVACY, INTIMACY — WHO CARES?
The SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE in Frankfurt does. In fact, they care about it so much, they set up an exhibition to explore how our perceptions towards privacy and intimacy – its more reclusive partner – have changed over the last decades. Featuring more than 30 positions from artists such as Andy Warhol, Tracy Emin, Dash Snow, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, and Leigh Ledare the SCHIRN offers views into what once was and now isn’t considered that private anymore: crumpled bedsheets, drug abuse, intimate kisses, sleep, your mom having sex with johns. And while in “real life” the kinkier stuff is still somewhat kept from the public thanks to the guidelines of most social media applications, it is true that we more often than not allow for the world to peek through these digital keyholes. But are we really headed for “post-privacy” where there’s no longer a distinction between private and public? And is this good or bad? Curator Martina Weinhart wants us to care too and gives us enough to ponder upon.
PRIVAT
Nov. 1st 2012 - Feb. 3rd 2013
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT
