Mercedes Wagner - Scenes and gestures (2015/16)

Scenes and gestures

Galerie52, Essen, 2017 (as part of solo show LIQUID LAYERS Même l'eau a lair fausse)

Shown in LIQUID LAYERS Même l‘eau a l‘air fausse, Galerie52 Essen, C-Prints, 60 x 36 cm, 54 x 90 cm tacked on wall, 60 x 80 cm metall framed, 50 x 60 cm black metall framed

Scenes and gestures examines our sensual perception and the depicting of the unknown through the photographic image. While the images and videos always indicate a tourist context they dont focus neither on showing an unknown yet specific landscape ,as it is‘ nor pointing out a potentially critical aspect of this industry.

Those two layers of tourism become readable only in their negation by giving very few hints on concrete locations and protagonists. The images are meant to be representatives rather then documents, and to reveal as much as they produce a secenry themselves.

Macchu Picchu I - XI, 2015, C-Print, 13 x 100 cm, tacked on wall

Gondola II (2016), C-Print, 50 x 60 cm, black metall frame

Silhouettes (2015), C-Print, 60 x 36 cm, tacked on wall

Arm, Shape, Hat (2015), C-Print, 60 x 36 cm, tacked on wall

Macchu Picchu XII - XXII, 2015, C-Print, 13 x 100 cm, tacked on wall

Guide (2015), C-Print, 54 x 90 cm, tacked on wall

Desert (2015), C-Print, 54 x 90 cm, tacked on wall

Arm / Gondola I (2016), C-Print, 60 x 80 cm, metall frame

Macchu Picchu XXIII - XXXIII, 2015, C-Print, 13 x 100 cm, tacked on wall