Rekonstruktion einer Realität // Leonie Lass

In the organizer's words:

"Life cannot enter the picture 'as it is'. The moment it becomes a picture, it has emptied itself and become something else." (Hito Steyerl)

In the exhibition "Reconstruction of a Reality", Leonie Lass deals with the production of images. Lass understands these as constructs of staging routines, patterns of perception, circulation processes and reception traditions that shape their meaning. Through photography, she questions the constitution and structures of spaces as well as the medium itself.

Based on found image material, Lass examines lived realities:
Digital images, often distributed through online platforms, are taken from everyday environments:
People advertise furniture and furnishings, with their living spaces and often their reflected mirror images unintentionally becoming part of the image. Of particular interest to Lass at this point is the surface of the TV, which, as an originally passive device for image reproduction, becomes an image carrier itself through its reflective surface. This reflection manifests the person in the room, the room itself or even the act of photographing - elements that Lass subjects to a new consideration of image perception.
Leonie Lass extracts this image material and creates an archive. She transforms the digital photographs into analog prints and presents them framed behind anti-reflective museum glass. At the same time, these works are visible around the clock through the reflective shop window glass and expand the boundary between inside and outside, private and public.