Lilo Bauer

CIRCLING

Book launch Sunday 26 October 15.15 hrs

Photographer Lilo Bauer was invited within the framework of the research project Citygraphy: Between Urban Politics and Urban Aesthetics to develop a topographic interpretation of 21st century Maastricht. Citygraphy - a joint project of the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, the Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel and Efemera - examines city development and representations of the modern urban condition since the 19th century.

Bauer's photography focuses on three locations in Maastricht: a suburb surrounding a prison, a park containing the ruins of fortified city walls, and a defunct factory as it is being emptied out. All three sites display certain elements of enclosure, visibility and control.

Circling is an installation of 35mm-slide projections, video, and c-prints. Exploring photography's relation to space, time, and framing, Circling becomes an investigation into the process of "making visible". This multi-layered approach allows the visitor to consider the relationship between the "real" and "represented" and to enter into dialogue about the city as a social space in constant transformation.

The exhibition is accompanied by the five-part publication Circling, a collaboration between Lilo Bauer and Jayme Yen (production Jan van Eyck Academie). The publication is available in the Museum Shop.

Lilo Bauer was born in 1976 in Jena, Germany, and studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany. She was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht from July 2006 until May 2008. She is currently doing postgraduate studies (Meisterschülerstudium) at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.