last seen recently - Die Klasse Julika Rudelius/Philipp Gufler zu Gast im KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen

In the organizer's words:

Last Seen Recently presents partly confrontational, partly poetic works that attempt to hold on to something or to retell the past. From photography and film to video games, performances and diverse spatial installations, the artists use these media to address questions of human memory culture and perception of reality. Who narrates the past? How is memory manipulated? When does memory harm us? And how do we deal with the emotions involved?

Several artists embark on a search for traces in their own childhood and family. In doing so, they expose universal patterns of power and relationships, such as deprivation of love and loneliness in contrast to tender companionship. Elsewhere, the inner child dies, whose loss is quite different from that of a real lover. This also finds its place in the exhibition. For example, when the digital persistence of a person makes it difficult to say goodbye. An entire identity in digital space - or packed into a suitcase.

The exhibition invites visitors into a field of tension between intimacy and publicity. Monuments meet fragile minds. The monuments are meant to immortalize. But they are unstable