Ronit Porat, Hunting In Time

Hunting In Time

Ronit Porat

Publisher
Sternthal Books
Year
2022
Specifications
Based on an exhibition trilogy shown between 2016 and 2018
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023

The work is based on a trilogy of exhibitions by the artist Ronit Porat shown in different venues between 2016 and 2018. It revisits a murder committed in Berlin in January 1931 that made headlines across the Weimar Republic: Fritz Ulbrich, a local watchmaker, was killed in his shop by a sixteen-year-old named Lieschen Neumann, her boyfriend and another youth. The investigation and the trial revealed that during the preceding decade Ulbrich had turned the back office of his workshop into a pornographic studio where he photographed hundreds of young girls, Neumann among them. Porat builds the work from extensive archival research.

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