ANNETTE KELM – BLOOM
2021-12-06Because of their scent, their beauty, their healing power, and even as food, plants have always had a firm place in humanity’s symbolic world. Annette Kelm’s four new large-scale photographs are also charged with this cultural-historical significance. However, the Berlin artist seems neither to enforce nor to negate the symbolic power of the plant world in her art. Instead, her approach to flora is characterized by care, an interest in aesthetics, and staging as well as a sober view on the plant. Vegetation is one of the recurring motifs in Kelm’s work. In combination with technical elements such as mechanical springs, the connection between art and technology is thematized in a subtle way. This nexus is particularly potent in photography, which is driven by technical innovation.
Opposite – Laceleave (Shadow), 2021
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2022
KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany
