Benita Suchodrev @ Fotografiska

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Benita Suchodrev @ Fotografiska

October 2nd, 2024 by fstop

2024 © Benita Suchodrev

Benita Suchodrev: Le bal infernal
October 11, 2024 – January 26, 2025

“In the labyrinth of Berlin club culture, labels and limitations disappear. For over 30 years, Berlin has been a space of possibility in which quite a few people have invented a new life, a new identity. Berlin’s nightlife, with its ever-evolving club culture, mirrors the city’s constant transformation.

In the extensive series Le bal infernal, which spans over 16 years, photographer Benita Suchodrev combines her aesthetic roots in portrait and social documentary photography and uses her unmistakable visual language to present people and moments that represent an essential part of Berlin’s past, present and future.

Like a dreamlike dance, this hellish ball takes place in a universe all of its own. The high-contrast, impressive shots are reminiscent of film classics of excess such as Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita from 1960 and thus combine beauty in the dark, freedom, collectivity and solitude. A wind of scandal, wickedness and vice blows around the characters who, far from other realities in daylight, allow and embrace debauchery. As in Dante’s Divine Comedy, as witnesses to the spectacle captured by Suchodrev’s camera, we encounter elements of an inferno, always associated with sinfulness, as well as a state of heavenly paradise.”

Fotografiska
Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin

Location: Berlin, Germany Type: Exhibition

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