Elfie Semotan – All personal // Spector Books

Ausstellung: 5. August – 24. September 2022

Press Release:

Elfie Semotan
All personal
Opens: 4 August, 7 pm
Exhibition run: 5 August − 24 September 2022

FOTOHOF gallery / Inge-Morath-Platz 1-3 / 5020 Salzburg / Austria




Opening of the new library space:
VERLAGE ZU GAST 4
Spector Books − Lektüre eines Jahres, oder Lesen als besondere Form des Grabens
Opens: 4 August 2022, starting 7 pm
Talk: Alexander Kluge in conversation with Jan Wenzel (Spector Books)
14 August 2022, 11 am

FOTOHOF library / Inge-Morath-Platz 11 / 5020 Salzburg / Austria

      

Elfie Semotan is rightly considered the grande dame of Austrian photography, whose work has been documented in numerous exhibitions and publications and is predominantly assigned by the public to the field of fashion and editorial portrait photography.

This major exhibition of more than 50 years of work now focuses on the artist's hitherto little-known private image archive.

FOTOHOF thus honors and positions Elfie Semotan as one of the early and important protagonists of "Autorenfotografie" in Austria. Elfie Semotan's persistent interest in the various possibilities of the medium of photography, her ability to give shape and poetry to the trivial world of things, runs like a thread through her archive, from its beginnings to the present day.

 
 
      
VERLAGE ZU GAST 4:
Spector Books
Lektüre eines Jahres, oder Lesen als besondere Form des Grabens

Opens: 4 August 2022, 7 pm
Exhibition in the new library space::
5 August − 26 November 2022

Spector Books publishes books at the intersection of art, theory and design. Here, the medium of the book becomes a stage: a place of encounter and productive debate. Based on the publication "Das Jahr 1990 freilegen" the Leipzig publisher presents its practice of bookmaking. "The question is: Why still write new books? Isn't it more rewarding to engage with the richness of what has already been produced?
          
Never was this question so close as now, at the beginning of the 21st century. EVERYTHING IS THERE. We can pass from the age of production to that of reception. The year 1990, when the Internet became publicly accessible, also stands for this. From here, the digital present counts, in which we are just learning to orient ourselves. Next to the computer now the scanner and stacks of books." At the new library location at Inge-Morath-Platz 11, publishers Anne König and Jan Wenzel are designing an exhibition. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

On August 14 at 11 a.m., Jan Wenzel and Alexander Kluge will talk about 1990 and their joint work and read some stories from the book.
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Press previews and meetings with the curators can be scheduled by appointment. Please call us on +43 662 849296 or email us at fotohof@fotohof.at to arrange a date.