Marina Gadonneix, born in Paris in 1977, studied photography at the École Nationale Supérieurede la Photographie in Arles. In 2006 she was awarded with the ‚Prix HSBC pour la Photographie.’ She lives and works in Paris. The work title, ›Playground Disorder‹, suggests a playful handling of places and describes an order, which, whatever order it may have been, is brought into disarray. And indeed the two work groups, ›The h…

HIDDEN PLACES Photography Katja Stuke, Oliver Sieber , Marina Gadonneix , Stefan Heyne , Peter Granser , Greg Stimac , Jason Lazarus Vernissage: Freitag, 4. September 2009, 19 Uhr Katja Stuke und Oliver Sieber sind anwesend.

"Here you are" vereint acht Künstler der Galerie, deren Interesse an Wirklichkeit sich in künstlerischer Fotografie mit traditionellen, aber zeitgemäß adaptierten, dokumentarischen Mitteln manifestiert. Beispiele dafür sind Peter Gransers Bilder aus Texas, deren meisterhafter Umgang mit Licht die Klischees und Mythen entlarvt, oder Marina Gadonneix' Serie "Remote Control", die kühl-analytisch die zwischen Repräsentation und Abstraktion changierenden Inszenierungen in Fernsehstudios unter…

Marina Gadonneix's work belongs, as she said, to the realm of "observation of the everyday world in its construction and layout, making the familiar world in which we live a place of artifice with its dimension of anxiety, strangeness and melancholy." One of the qualities of her work, apart from its plastic excellence, is indeed the degree of explanation and interpretation that it contains. Marina Gadonneix is interested in the media world in a biased way, photographing empty television studios,…