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Anne Morgenstern

Macht Liebe

Name(n)

Anne Morgenstern (1976)

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Beschäftigung

Ausbildung

Photography, ZHdK, Zurich

Titel

Macht Liebe

Entstehungsjahr

2018–2022

Entstehungsort

Various

Entstehungskontext

Personal

Kollaborateur(e)

Gezeigtes Objekt(e)

1 book, prints

Maße

Book: 305 × 215 mm (landscape format); prints: 480 × 339 mm

Formate / Dauer

Material(ien)

Book: Arctic Volume Ivory paper, 115 g/m²
Prints: Archival Pigment-Print, Barytapaper

Materiallieferant(en)

Macht Liebe is about love and desire. It is about bodies, desiring and desired bodies, their untameability, tenderness and brutality. It is about power and politics too, about the power wielded by flesh and the politics embedded in the skin. 

Anne Morgenstern invites us to join her in an exploration of the interplay between body and identity, and in a subtle but persistent deconstruction of social norms and expectations surrounding the body. The flux of images, tightly edited and sequenced, allows questions to gradually form in the reader’s mind: what makes a body beautiful and desirable? What makes a body normal, and who decides when a body falls outside of the norms? How are our identities embedded in our body, and how does our body enable us to perform these identities? How do we desire and act on these desires? 

Her photo book Macht Liebe is being published by Hartmann Books in 2022. The accompanying exhibition opened at the Centre de la photographie in Geneva in February 2022.