Berges' large colour prints focus on the details of living space that are no longer inhabited. The spaces photographed are of abandoned homes in former coal mining towns in Germany; as the coal mining industry was closed down, essentially, so was the town. Berges' employs a formalist aesthetic to document these empty living spaces, which highlight the absence of the human life where signs indicate there once life. It is as if the emptiness within the image is attempting to speak of an existence that was previously present, but is dissolving with time.
Laurenz Berges is a former student of Bernd Becher at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf.
presentation/representation: photography from Germany is on show at the Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia until 30 August 2009.
Laurenze Berges
Laurenze Berges
Laurenze Berges
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