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CAPRI LIX
BERLIN: Jörn Gerstenberg
MOSKAU: Wladimir Winter

14.10.-29.10.05


WLADIMIR WINTER: 50 Erbauer Moskaus (2004-2005; photography/video)
Wladimir Winter, an artist from Saratow who works with painting and photography, has recently moved to Moscow. There he was hired to portrait migrant construction workers on the city's booming building sites. Most of these "builders of Moscow" come from impoverished former Soviet Republics; once in the capital, the men are shut in the specific construction site, and they will be illegalised immediately after their jobs are done. Winter's photos served for special IDs that - far from legalising the workers' status - only confirmed their precarious condition.
In Winter's video-montage of these portraits, every seven seconds a different builder's face appears. Of the fifty construction workers in this series, 10 men wear the same shirt.

JÖRN GERSTENBERG: mechanica (2005; PVC-cuts)
Jörn Gerstenberg invents bizarre scenarios of an uninhabitable, imaginary city. mechanica's labyrinthic architechtures evoke a notion of beauty informed by a modernist faith in perfection; in Gerstenberg's vertiginous constructions, however, the spectacular and the perfectionistic are immediately questioned by an omni-present, profound melancholy.
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