BETTINA CARL |
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THE LOCALS 2006 - 2009 | introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
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THE LOCALS Being a local in most cases is a quality a person only bears in the eyes of a stranger. One may conform with or deviate from the features that sum up to shape a particular local. The sensation of belonging, however, does not naturally come along with that status, nor is it a matter of individual choices. And to belong can always mean both: an experience of comfort or one of repression. Walking their dogs, sporting their D+G shades and often resembling apes, THE LOCALS informing this series act as prototypes of the contemporary Middle European. They are free in many ways, citizens that do not have to cope with war or existential material miseries. Sometimes fearful or angry, and often rather sad, they appear and pass by the observer. from: THE LOCALS, 2009 ink, pencil on paper, 42 x 30 cm |
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