Luise Marchand (lives and works in Berlin) graduated in 2019 as a master student of Prof. Peter Piller and Prof. Peggy Buth at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and received the G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig Award. In 2020, she was a scholarship holder of the Kunstverein Hannover at Villa Minimo and was awarded the Wüstenrot Foundation's Documentary Photography Prize. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum Folkwang Essen, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Worpsweder Museen, Kunstverein Hannover, Kunstverein Göttingen, Kunstverein Leipzig, Galerie K Strich, EIKON Schauraum Wien and the Torrance Shipman Gallery NYC.
DIE ZEICHEN STEHEN GUT
2016–fortlaufend
5x digital offset, 2017, 60x84cm, strong magnets, curved aluminum sheets,
1x fine art print, aluminum object frame, 61x44cm
printed wallpaper, carpet, 3x cushions, various window films.
In the series “DIE ZEICHEN STEHEN GUT”, Marchand explores the constant pressure to optimize under the sign of the ever-increasing immaterial work of a post-industrial society. In which all boundaries between what is still private and the world of work are becoming blurred. An ambivalent tension between our personal integrity, everything is diluted, one is subject to the predetermined mechanisms of money in the psychologically underpinned world of capitalism.
Marchand uses visual objects with the function and promise of self-optimization as a means of expression. Face masks, peeling pads, false eyebrows, technologies of self-regulation run through her work. Hovering in the background are the thoughts of who is making use of our mental and emotional self, as feelings are nowadays calculated in the digital world and thus distributed to the world in a targeted manner.
For her, the question remains: for whom are the signs good?
