Constanze Flamme NORTH SEA – WORLDS – BALTIC SEA

After the market on Saturday, 24 February 2024 at 12:30 pm

“The groping, astonishment of naming, this attempt at spelling out the world.” (-Paul Nizon)

This citation is a leitmotif of documentary work with the camera, a work which must take us to different places in the World and yet brings us back to Otte1 – nestled between two seas. A love of the sea led Constanze Flamme (who grew up in Northern Frisia) to Louisiana to photograph the consequences of oil catastrophe following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. This Saturday, audiences are invited to come and get to know Constanze Flamme and her artistic praxis during her fellowship at Otte1.

With a background in Anthropology, Constanze engages her work as a photographer and visual artist interested in an essayistic approach to social and ecological issues. This approach also creates a metaphorical condensation in the form of her picture language. Highlighted is our interaction with the environment, social issues and the fragile system of interrelationships between humans and nature. For her work on the consequences of the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico she has repeatedly received VG Bildkunst project funding.

Intercultural workshops on storytelling and photography as a creative catalyst is an essential part of her work with the camera. In 2019, she was an invited artist for the first Photography Biennial in Porto. The topic of “Adaptation and Transition”, motivated her to initiate an ecological participatory action/sculpture in addition to exhibiting banners in the Jardins do Palácio de Cristal park through a time and value exchange. During this first photography biennial, planting trees as an answer to regional necessities and a renewable [landscape] image grow out aspects that she will share with audiences on her art praxis, as well as the question of sustainability after art events.

Admission free