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Fragile Images of the Body Pola Sieverding (b. 1981, lives and works in Berlin) works with photography, film, and video. Her images blend the documentary register with staging, alternating between impersonal observation and emphatically subjective creation and combining journalistic with artistic techniques. Her works scrutinize traditional conceptions of gender, culture, and convention, turning the spotlight on specific stages of social life as well as the human protagonists who appear on them. A primary interest of her analysis is how her subjects --ranging from women in traditional Islamic garb to drag queens --relate to their own bodies. She often portrays people who identify with subcultures or alternative cultures such as the world of hip hop, New York's gay scene, varieties of heavy metal music, or the Berlin club scene. Her own position, Sieverding says, is that of an -engaged observer.- Only by balancing involvement with the distance from the action the camera affords her can she shoot pictures of such focused intimacy. In the past several years, the artist has expanded her portfolio with equally characteristic architecture photographs that want to be read as portraits of specific social spaces. This is the first monograph on Pola Sieverding.

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