“States of Rebirth” at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg sheds light on the relationships between the body, movement and social structures in physical and digital spaces. The exhibition focuses on documentary and conceptual projects in contemporary performance, portrait and dance photography. Using a choreography that relates photographs of moving bodies in space to one another, the exhibition examines the extent to which postures, gestures and poses reflect, shape and transform the negotiation processes of social change.
The exhibition brings together works by the artists KhingWei Bai, Felipe Romero Beltrán, Moshtari Hilal, Naomi Lulendo, Ana Maria Sales Prado, Roxana Rios, Aykan Safoğlu, Isaac Chong Wai and Farren van Wyk, who photographically stage “glocal bodies” in dialogue with one another. Iranian dance scholar Elaheh Hatami describes “glocal” as bodies that are both locally present and have connections to more than …
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Image above: Roxana Rios, Figure, Form, 2020 – ongoing, © Roxana Rios.