Inea Gukema-Augstein, München
With the title "blind date", Inea Gukema-Augstein shows a spatial installation in the Aedes East Extension Pavilion, which she populates with her photographic works like a box. Inaccessible, even during the exhibition, a space is created that opens up further inaccessible spaces for us. Be it because they are of a private nature (and thus hidden from public access), or because their design takes place only in the mind of the woman depicted, in her world of thoughts, her imagination. The room, in the room, in the room. Twice we encounter her, the woman in the empty room. What is the dresscode of your livingroom? takes up the woman's tense, dreamy gaze into the distance. Where do her longings, desires and expectations of her own home come from? Inea Gukema-Augstein is on the trail of these questions. How individual are our increasingly exclusive demands really? Blind date - a beginning, a new start, a projection surface for all unfulfilled wishes? For image and identity? More being with appearances? Spacious image carriers with a new printing process, which is mainly used for large posters in advertising, correspond with the contents of the beautiful appearance of the living worlds. Housing and lifestyle magazines announce the trends of today: vintage, retro, ethno, modern country, natural style, new romantic - but now is only yesterday's tomorrow. In the series Housing, Inea Gukema-Augstein comments with fine post-feminist irony on the eternal dream of owning a little house in the countryside. And what for? To finally sit there like the woman with the house, put over her head, too big to fit into such small dreams? Shaping the environment aesthetically is positive women's work - but at the same time it pushes women away from the world: a classic stalemate.
