The Body Politic
Group Exhibition: Contemporary photography from Austria
The Body Politic is a group exhibition highlighting the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Austria. The work reflects the concerns of five established and emerging photographic talents:
Erwin Polanc’s series “8820+”
Karin Fisslthaler uses found images to explore rituals and social conventions in images manifested in film and photography. In her series “Testing Assertions to the Contrary” hands, skin, the faces of movie stars are distorted and concealed to reveal the structural complexities of media representations.
Ulrike Lienbacher interrogates the notion of the body as subject or object, utilising models to subvert stereotypical postures or poses in her series “Pin Up Exercises”.
The resurgent genre of street photography is reflected in Christopher Mavric’s live and unstaged colour portraits of ordinary Austrians living in Vienna and Graz.
In her series “Young Gods”, Stefanie Moshammer worked closely with disaffected young men to capture their experience of transitioning from adolescence into adulthood.
Erwin Polanc “8820 +/” captures the artist’s experience of growing up in a small village in Austria. Composed of architectural studies and portraits Polanc’s perspective presents a wonderful balance between empathy, bleakness and the comedy of daily life.
The Body Politic exhibition also includes a special focus on the state of the art of photobook publishing, with a curated selection of recent and classic photo books from Austria’s leading publishers.
Exhibition dates
25th August – 28th September 2016
Gallery information
Opening hours
Open 6 days:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
Open Mondays by appointment for ongoing education, artists archiving and training.
Closed Sundays
Closed for bank holidays and public holidays
Admission is free
Find us
Gallery of Photography Ireland
Meeting House Square,
Temple Bar,
Dublin D02 X406, Ireland