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Regine Petersen, Ann, from the series Find a Fallen Star, 2015 Regine Petersen, Eye Witness (Eurice), from the series Find a Fallen Star, 2015

Regine Petersen Find a Fallen Star 13.07. – 21.08.2016

The Museum für Photographie in Brunswick presents Regine Petersen's image series Find a

Fallen Star in her first solo exhibition in a museum in Germany. The trilogy narrates three

exemplary stories of meteor impacts in Alabama (USA), Ramsdorf (Germany) and Kanwapura

(India). Petersen thoroughly investigated these rare and startling events and added

newspaper articles archived photos and interview protocols to her work. By Petersens artful

tale the beholder gets an insight not only into the find spot but also into the fates of people

that are connected to the impacts, the search for the meteorites and the concomitant

accidants.

Petersen's allegoric work in its minimalistic reduced way let the photos themselves speak

and opens up room for philosophic questions about human existence. The impact events

themselves iniate the reflection on the „dichotomy between daily routine and the

fathomlessness of cosmos“ (Peter Lindhorst, PHOTONEWS, 2015). Her documentary-

associative approach becomes the expression of myth, randomness, fate and the secrets of

the extraterrestrial rocks.

Regine Petersen, Masada, from the series The Gospel of Mark, 2016

As a place open for discussion The Museum für Photographie is vividly engaged in the debate

on artistic strategies and approaches. The ongoing display of new works of distinguished

young artists is therefore an important function for the museum.

Thus the exhibition presents not only Petersen's work Find a Fallen Star. For the first time

ever some insights into her new project The Gospel of Mark that adresses an interpretation of

the Gospel of Mark as a literary tract of the jewish-roman war (66 - 70 AD) are given.

Petersen's work focuses on sybolism and the narrative structure of the Gospel of Mark and

comprehends it as a multivalent and subtle literary document in which the surrounding

violence is always palpable. She is following recent historic-allegoric exegetic views that

fathom the gospel as a jewish text with hidden anti-imperialistic meassages.

In their picture language Petersen's photographies reflect the interlocking of the factual and

the mythical, which is characteristic to the medium of photography in her view. The works

create a poetic-symbolistic approach to the Gospel of Mark. In this way The Gospel of Mark

alludes the viewer to the strong contrast of the peaceful galilaen landscape and the martial

brutality of war and shows ambivalent sceneries that can be interpreted in different ways.

Regine Petersen was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1976. She studied Communication Design

at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. In 2009 she received her MA in Photography

at the Royal College of Art in London. She was awarded with the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis

2016 for her work Find a Fallen Star.

Duration of the exhibition 13.07. – 21.08.2016

Opening of the exhibition Tuesday, 12.07.2016, 7 p.m. followed by our summer party

and music with Sonntag & Zatloukal

Press talk Tuesday, 12.07.2016, noon

Exhibition place Museum für Photographie / Torhäuser,

Helmstedter Straße 1, 38102 Braunschweig

Opening hours Tue – Fri 1– 6 p.m., Sat + Sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Guided tours Sundays 4 p.m.

Admission 2,50 € / 1 € reduced

Press contact Christin Müller · 0531-75000 · projekte@photomuseum.de

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