Vernissage "nicht hier i nie tam"

In the organizer's words:

not here i never tam

With "nicht hier i nie tam" , Kate Kuklinski presents a photographic work about origin, belonging and inherited memory. The starting point of the project is the history of her family in Upper Silesia - a Polish region characterized by political upheavals, border shifts and changing affiliations.
The work moves along personal and collective traces of memory and examines how history is inscribed in families, passed on, changed or concealed. Between photographs, archive fragments and subjective images, an approach to the feeling of being in-between is created - between places, languages, identities and generations.
The focus is less on historical unambiguity than on the fragility of belonging and the question of how identity is formed when origin, socialization and external attribution are no longer congruent. Past and present overlap, memory appears fragmented, contradictory and yet effective.

Kate Kuklinski (*1991, Hamburg, DE) lives and works in Hamburg. Her photographic practice operates at the interface of documentary photography, portraiture and conceptual approaches. In her work she deals with questions of femininity, identity, health and body politics, in particular with feminist image politics and the visual power structures that shape them.

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