LOPJ | Splinter and interpretation
The current works of the artist group LOJP from Dresden (Manja Barthel, Constanze Böckmann, Nina May and Theresa Wenzel) are the result of a search for clues and artistic tracing.
A found object served as a common starting point and basis: the photo of an unknown girl. A found photo can no longer be identified. Nobody knows who took it, who it depicts, at what time and where it was taken. The only option is to interpret the signs depicted. Smells, sounds or the story behind them are only present if our brain allows them to resonate.
The working methods and media used here are very different. They use painting, collage, drawing, video, photography and spatial installation to play with the revelations of the photo. They also formulate something that is not expressed in images, they interpret what is mysterious or ambiguous. They invent a completely new thing that is either far removed from the root or comes very close to it.