German artist, working in New York, exhibiting (currently) in Paris. Meet Josephine Meckseper.  gagosian_josephine_meckseper_press_release-2

Her artwork (photo above) and artist statement (in the link above) connects her work to Walter Benjamin’s Arcade Project. I sometimes wonder if just attaching that name and mentioning consumerism makes you seem learned enough that art becomes Art…

You caught me in a cynical mood today. My images are simply photographs from the streets, albeit from those three countries as well.

This one was paired, for the series Fugue, with the poem by German exile Hilde Domin:

Exile

The mouth dying

The mouth twisted

The mouth trying

to say the word right

in a strange language.

Hilde Domin (translated by Eavan Boland)