Reflections on four maps by visual artist Rebecca Agnes
Abstract
Anita Burchardt looks at four works made by Rebecca Agnes
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Anita Burchardt
Germany
Anita Burchardt is a white queer activist who lives in Berlin. Anita currently works in the Youth Organization Amaro Drom, which campaigns against anti-Romani racism and for political participation of Romani Communities in Germany. Anita was born in 1979 in East Berlin. After finishing High School s*he completed a professional training as a veterinary assistant. Afterwards s*he studied and graduated in Philosophy and Gender Studies at Humboldt-University Berlin. S*he has a German passport. The artist Rebecca Agnes has been Anita’s partner for more than 12 years.
Rebecca Agnes is a white cis-gender lesbian visual artist. She was born in 1978 in Pavia, Italy. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, the city where she lived until 2006, when she moved to Berlin. She works between Berlin and Milan. She is member of Association 22:37 (Milan/Venice) and Peninsula e.V. (Berlin).
“I understand art as a language – a language that uses not words but images, a different way to think about reality and to question it. I collect peoples’ stories, trying to open up my perspective through the views and experiences of others. I’m interested in narration, the meaning of it and the position of the storyteller. Who is telling a story no matter of what kind (history, science, literature and so on) has responsibilities, through the telling a (new) reality is shaped, filtered by her*his own position and context, with no possibility of objectivity.”
Rebecca Agnes web-site www.rebeccaagnes.org
Associazione 22:37 https://22e37.wordpress.com/
Peninsula e.V. http://www.peninsula.land/
“I understand art as a language – a language that uses not words but images, a different way to think about reality and to question it. I collect peoples’ stories, trying to open up my perspective through the views and experiences of others. I’m interested in narration, the meaning of it and the position of the storyteller. Who is telling a story no matter of what kind (history, science, literature and so on) has responsibilities, through the telling a (new) reality is shaped, filtered by her*his own position and context, with no possibility of objectivity.”
Rebecca Agnes web-site www.rebeccaagnes.org
Associazione 22:37 https://22e37.wordpress.com/
Peninsula e.V. http://www.peninsula.land/