SANDRA RATKOVIC
MYTH USA
The exhibition juxtaposes photographs from the USA today with images from so-called Western towns in Germany.
Western towns are theme parks or fantasy places that function analogously to an urban community: equipped with mayors, saloons, prisons and churches where you can get married, as well as cemeteries where you can be buried. Among other things, historical battles are reenacted; heroism and cannonballs are part of the recreational fun at the weekend.
What happens when this past, mystified image of the USA, which is acted out in German western towns, meets images of the state of today's parallel USA? Where do we find differences and friction, and where perhaps surprising parallels?
The photographer Sandra Ratkovic pursued these questions between 2019 and 2022 in journeys to three different regions of the USA (New York, Miami, Cape Canaveral) and to three German Western towns in Berlin, Brandenburg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
The exhibition takes place at Levels Gallery in Berlin-Weissensee, presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection. Curator: Boris Kostadinov.
Exhibition duration:
28 April - 31 May 2023
Opening:
Friday, 28 April 2023, 7 p.m.
Artist tour:
Saturday, 6 May 2023, 6 p.m.
Finissage:
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 7 p.m.
Opening hours:
Gallery Weekend 29 and 30.4.2023 from 3 to 6 pm each day.
from 1.5.2023: by arrangement
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