ELINA BROTHERUS – 

IN REFERENCE TO A SUNNY PLACE

She changes roles and perspectives, plays with relationships in the creative process and opens ever new doors between photography and the visual arts with palpable delight. The FFF honours the Finnish artist Elina Brotherus with the comprehensive survey show IN REFERENCE TO A SUNNY PLACE.

On display are central themes and works from the past 20 years. In various image series and video works, Brotherus repeatedly deals with the connections between model and artist, between man and woman, figure and place, as well as with the genres of portraiture and the nude. With her typical humorous and ironic self-staging, she explores emotions and tensions: being alone and being together, being lost and being safe, love, sadness, joy. Often it is her examination of various art movements from Romanticism to Fluxus that inspire.

On show amongst others is the series Sebaldiana. Memento Mori, Brotherus’ preoccupation with the German literary figure W.G. Sebald and her mother’s short life as an artist.