GRANDIOSITY IS A CONSEQUENCE OF TRAUMA
spedition-bremen.comWith „Grandiosity is a Consequence of Trauma“, I present an analysis of masculinity in the form of staged photographs. Based on contemporary feminist, anti-patriarchal thoughts on masculinity, I draw references, interpret and comment. Especially where I can find myself. This is how I try to approach the question of what good masculinity is. Whether a diversity of masculinities is enough or whether masculinity as a social gender should vanish completly.
And so I present it in the way that masculinity presents itself to me - an absurd, funny theatre. Funny only because otherwise it would be too sad. Comical figures, male and non-male, enter the stage to work their way through their own gender. They come to feel sorry for themselves, they melt away, they are ashamed or don't do just that. None of this is about redemption. It is too early for utopia. Nevertheless, longing and hope creep into the story.
The photos pose questions about current confusions in the discourse on masculinity. How can men remain part of the feminist discourse without reproducing patriarchal dominance? How can a common understanding of masculinity be created between the generations? Should men form packs and run half-naked through the forest among themselves?
CREDITS
KONZEPT/ FOTOGRAFIE/ EDIT Max Grund KAMERA ASSISTENZ Atalay Küçükoğlu SFX-MAKE-UP Jany Mayer HAARE/ MAKE-UP Véra Deubner, Hannah Müller DOKUMENTATION Josefine Kröll MODELS Andrii Smirnov, Samuel Christiansen, Atalay Küçükoğlu, Maximilian Kather, Jany Mayer, Quirin Solmsdorf, Sebastian Beitz, Véra Deubner, Robert Coellen, Arzamastseva Vladislava, Niccolo Dietrich, Artur Jäger, Phillip Dreifeld, Kyan Mitwollen, Oskar Bartsch, Thomas Dumski, Rene Grauert, Werner Dumski
