Anna Bromley and Sandy Volz have been combining words with images in their joint projects since 2014. The focus of their dialogic deliberations is on questioning the standard attributions made to body-things.
"After the Dance" comprises an essay, photographs of collages and oversized cushions. The work addresses the ambivalent physical sensation of dizziness. The essay is based on Anna’s recollections of the time around the collapse of communism and the final years of the GDR, which she experienced as a teenager. What emerges is a collage that meanders between history (histories) and philosophy. It’s about a form of remembering nourished by recollections of textiles and materials. In this case, textiles represent cloaks and anchorages in times of dizziness and dizzying swindles.
Sandy’s photographs are a response to the essay. They reprocess black and white images from “Sybille,” East Germany’s leading magazine for fashion and culture. Via the intermediate step of collage as a process of manual montage, fragments of skin, hair and textiles are translated back into photographs. Defragmented and reconstructed, the bodies floating on the page are shrouded in a timeless silence. The cushions offer visitors an island from which to observe and read.
Photographs, 50 × 40 cm
2016 – 2018
