PRESS RELEASE

KW Institute of Contemporary Art

Berlin, Germany

Ricarda Roggan
Still Life

July 6 - September 7, 2008

Ricarda Roggan's motifs appear as if they were everyday situations encountered incidentally. The precision and concentration of her photographs tempt to conclude that all coincidence is staged and things occur only seemingly by chance. The artist cautiously penetrates real space, undertaking subtle interventions into existing constellations. Things and spaces were detached from their original context of meaning. School furniture, factory halls, cellars, tables, chairs, or loungers bear marks of past use, but in the new arrangements they forfeit their old function. The loss of their actual spatial context frees them from their functional duty. Bereft of its history, what is depicted eschews narrative.

The exhibition Still Life at KW Institute for Contemporary Art is the first institutional solo show of Ricarda Roggan (*1972, Dresden) in Germany.

FOr MORE INFORMATION ON RICARD ROGGAN:

http://www.eigen-art.com/Kuenstlerseiten/Ricarda_Roggan/Roggan_DE.html

http://deutsche-boerse.com/

(Images below:  Ricarda Roggan, from The Dignity of Objects, 2003 @Richarda Roggan)