Various Authors, Love, Maybe

Love, Maybe

Various Authors

Publisher
Distanz
Year
2025
ISBN
978-3-95476-688-8
Specifications
Hardcover
21 × 28 cm
172 pages
98 colour illustrations
English / German
Edited by Jana J. Haeckel, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

Words can rarely describe the complex state of mind we call love. Images created by artists often tell us much more about this vaunted feeling; they affect and seduce us while also teaching us something. Whether in classic nude photography, the private photo album, or pop culture, photography has always served to stage loving and eroticized bodies. How can the modern myth of love be subjected to critical examination, and which representations are missing from the collective memory, especially when it comes to empathetic forms of togetherness beyond erotic love? Love, Maybe spotlights multimedia installations, works of sculpture, and above all photographs that frame subjective, radical, witty, and critical perspectives on our notions of love, eroticism, and tenderness. The gathered works by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Bianca Baldi, Matthieu Croizier, Nan Goldin, Ren Hang, Gabby Laurent, Boris Mikhailov, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dayanita Singh, and others bring humor and vulnerability to the fore in telling stories of doubt, desire, and intimacy in all their facets. The catalogue features a foreword by Dr Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, an essay by Dr Jana Johanna Haeckel, a text by writer Minna Salami and a conversation between the artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya and curator Jana Johanna Haeckel.

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