Dana Lixenberg
25 March - 29 May 2011
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DANA LIXENBERG
Set Amsterdam
25 March - 29 May 2011
In Set Amsterdam, Dana Lixenberg portrays the city in a series of
landscapes and interiors. These photographs depict Amsterdam as a kind
of film set, fashioned by its current and former residents. The absence
of people in the images turns the viewer's gaze to the space itself and
to the myriad details which define these environments. In Set Amsterdam
only traces of human activity hint at inhabitants and at lives fully
lived.
Lixenberg was inspired to create these photographs after being
commissioned to create actors' portraits for the eight-part television
series A'dam - E.v.a. (Amsterdam and many others). This series, written
by Robert Alberdingk Thijm and directed by Norbert ter Hall, broadcast
from 6 March 2011 on Dutch television, examines individual lives in the
city of Amsterdam. Her work on the series eventually guided Lixenberg to
locations previously inconspicuous to her, such as a former bomb
shelter, a Ghanaian church, cemeteries, a morgue, Amsterdam's garbage
incinerator and other public and private spaces. Lixenberg sought
environments imparting a sense of transience that bear witness to the
human stamp of its former residents. She also photographed spaces still
filled with life and which, through subtle attention to detail and
atmosphere, evoke a way of life.
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