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Shared by Sisters
Frank Motz
A tenement house, the back yard, tea-time:
they have no other food, and so two young women sitting before a
desolate urban backdrop eat wild rats – omnivores that destroy
food stores, bring sickness and, like man, have managed to assert
themselves insidiously all over the world.
In a dog-eat-dog society, where poverty
and inequality, inefficiency and savage greed are everyday norms,
a meal of rats as the usual treat for the underprivileged does not
appear entirely out of the question. The unequal distribution of
wealth upholds the borders between countries, tears the population
of a country apart, intensifies social tensions, and provokes hatred
among citizens.
The staged photograph Sisters emerged under
the artist’s contrasting impressions of the birth-place of
capital – London – and the Scandinavian welfare state
with its free educational system and relatively narrow-meshed safety
net of institutions to help citizens in difficulty.
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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