Einmal Königin sein
Disguised as highlights, photography documents cultural development processes. What preconceptions and memories characterise these images? “Einmal Königin sein” looks at recordings in terms of how they are characterised by tradition in order to comment on them in the present. The starting point of the work is a woman and a dress that lead us to role models of a society that stages itself.
Textiles mark social positions and life events. Photography and dress are integral parts of a wedding. Until the 1930s, a wedding was often the first and only event in a person's life to be captured in a photograph. It was a significant moment, the image of which would universally represent the person. Entering the scene in a wedding dress is a theatrical gesture and at the same time the prelude to the creation of a visual document: the dress forms a social body that is solidified in the photograph.
Through the passing on of rites and customs over generations, traditions are closely linked to our view of ourselves and the world. Flowers play a central role in the context of rites and customs - they decorate the cultural formal language of an ideal. The elegant lady is the personification of beauty, which is maximised in the role of the queen and becomes a motif of longing.