Arwed Messmer - Reenactment MfS, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014, Messmer
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Hardcover, graphic design by Carsten Eisfeld.
An unusual body of evidence, an artistic perspective on the legacy of East Germany’s secret police.
In the archives of East Germany’s Stasi secret police, officially named the Ministry for State Security, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall. In this visual collage, Arwed Messmer (* 1964) presents a selection of these photos and further images of official evidence from the holdings of The Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives. The result is an arresting, complex collage of found, retouched, and recontextualized visual records and Messmer’s own photographs—a working method described by photo critic Gerry Badger as “an artistic reevaluation of history.” Twenty-five years after the fall of the Wall, Reenactment MfS takes a new look at a major theme in recent German history, with an alternative approach to understanding contemporary history and to the use of photography. With what Florian Ebner describes as “documentary empathy,” Arwed Messmer challenges the authenticity of the documentary image, which is never completely free of “enactment.”
Artist: Arwed Messmer
Pages: 256
Place: Ostfildern
Year: 2014
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Size: 17 × 24 cm (approx.)
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