Annette Behrens
Annete Behrens’ works emerge from her fascination for the “Other” and for what deviates from the norm. The outsider is an important concept within her works. Through photography and video she looks at various, stereotypical groups and searches for groups with whom she can show our complicated, judgmental relationship towards the “Other”.
What do we see, how do we want to been seen and what do we hide on the inside?
Can an image actually show the “Other”? Can a picture reach beyond a cliched representation? We arrange and categorize the world and the people around us in order to understand our chaotic surroundings.
Due to Behrens’ upbringing in Germany and the history of my country she’s been conscious about where this in- and exclusion can lead for all her life.