PORTRAITS OF POWER

We are so overwhelmed today by the floods of images in the media that our innocent view has been lost.  Julia Kissina’s large-scale colour photographs baulk at quick consumption, if only for their almost corporal presence and their subtle combination of contradictory pictorial strategies.  They live from the conflict between the form and content of their production and thus develop a special dramatic quality which grips the viewer.
Piezo-Pigment print edition of 5 + 2 AP, 2010-15

The chairman of the Cricket League of Saturn!
Angela Merkel
Che Guevara
Shaman
Mikhail Bakunin
Jimmy Hendrix
Sokrates
Dictator
Solschenizyn
Alien
Twins
Josef Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
Kaiser Wilhelm
Dalai Lama
George
Osho
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Cage
Adolf
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ed. of 5 + 2 AP
Exhibition view
Exhibition view