Lotte Reimann studied fine arts with a favor for photographic images. Her work gives insight into personal worlds, leaving room for her own artist perspective. Found and own images, texts, and sounds connect easily into open story lines. These fragmentary narratives touch on existing power structures, e.g. between author and subject. The 'erotic' body in ‘modern’ society, and the archive as a controversial tool for both understanding and authorization are Lotte's recurring subjects of investigation. […]
Lotte Reimann studied fine arts with a favor for photographic images. Her work gives insight into personal worlds, leaving room for her own artist perspective. Found and own images, texts, and sounds connect easily into open story lines. These fragmentary narratives touch on existing power structures, e.g. between author and subject. The ‘erotic’ body in ‘modern’ society, and the archive as a controversial tool for both understanding and authorization are Lotte’s recurring subjects of investigation. By collaborating with the so-called ‘other,’ her work loosely links to post-colonial theory. The stories and characters glisten in ambiguity and inexplicability. They are stories designed to dodge clarification and avoid definitive explanations, cast off stereotypes and challenge conventional analysis. Lotte’s works have been shown and discussed internationally in the European Union and the USA.
About the project
For her research at Fresh A.I.R., Lotte delves into the lively Berlin kink scene and collaboratively sheds light on the interconnectedness of BDSM and asexuality. Appropriated archive images and interview fragments are combined into a two channel video installation, which questions our ‘modern’ ideas of eroticism, sexuality, and more generally the dichotomous understanding of people and their desires. This video installation is the third part of a film trilogy which examines identity, love, and attraction under the influence of the Western naturalist ontology.
