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Paradise Lost
Frank Motz
The photograph Paradise shows a woman and
a man of the same age sharing intimacy and a physical interest in
one another. This intimate familiarity expresses both positive and
negative aspects in one and the same image. Perhaps the man is looking
out for an enemy, whom he must confront in order to release his
energies. By contrast, the woman may be expecting an affectionate
approach.
These instincts alternate, struggling against
each other across the time axis represented by the photo, and can
be read from left to right, or the other way around. Certainly,
there is a moral view of the correct and incorrect way to approach
and interpret the significant “other” in this picture,
but at least it also admits the negative impulses as components
of life and does not attempt to sweep them under the carpet.
Frank
Motz is the founder/director of the ACC Galerie in Weimar and the
curator of Halle 14, Stiftung Federkiel in Leipzig (Germany).
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