The artist Lisa Domin-Alouane uses film, photography, performative elements and language to negotiate questions of fiction and the instrumentalization of biographical stories and public historiography. She lives and works in Cologne, studied Fine Arts with a focus on photography and film in Braunschweig and Budapest and postgraduate Media Arts at the KHM Cologne. Her work has been shown at FOTODOKS Munich, Marler Medienkunstpreis, GfZK Leipzig, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, WDR, Rencontres Internationales Paris, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Kasseler DokFest, Ruhrtriennale, Videonale, EMAF and Plattform des Fotomuseums Winterthur, among others, and has received numerous awards.
Twin Towers
3-teilige Fotoserie, 2019
3-part photo series, fine art prints, framed, 2019, 60 x 40 and 40 x 60 cm
The sequenced tension between imagery and narration becomes particularly clear in the three black and white photographs by Domin-Aloune. They show a very simple scene: three people at a table, a grandmother with her niece from Serbia and her guest, an art historian from New York, trying to communicate. The attempt at mediation focuses on the global political event of the fall of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
The pictures show in a tragically comical way how, due to communication difficulties, attempts are made to reconstruct the fall of the towers with a sponge cake and a dictionary. Domin-Aloune manages to concentrate a state between embarrassment, nervousness, helplessness, cultural and linguistic barriers and national trauma into a harrowing comedy.
