Nothing is explained but there was a humorous side to the video in that the distinguished old gentleman – seated at a table in a classy dark suit – twitches as he stares glassy-eyed into the camera with two heavy hands on his shoulders and a pair of gimlet-eyed heavies standing close on either side. And I found myself wondering – who are these sinister individuals and what bloody horrible crimes are they about to commit? A certain anxiety sets in when you realize that one of the props is a clapped-out bed frame with bent metal springs and no mattress. There was also some other livestock lurking in the background.īecause there were no titles the work became a subjective experience. In one segment we see him in a gloomy basement, setting up a posed shot that involves an elderly gent, two heavy looking younger blokes and a pair of horses surrounded by neon crosses. There wasn’t a huge number of Marquardt’s photographs in the Melbourne exhibition, but it was a wonderful show that included a grainy black and white video of him hard at work in Berlin. He grew up in East Berlin before the wall came down, and by his own admission, ‘ I have always been a man who polarised people.’ ( Kultur, EditMagazine of the Goethe-Institut Australia ). Marquardt’s transgressive black and white photographs capture the dark gothic splendour of Berlin after dark. When I saw Sven Marquardt’s Melbourne exhibition I wanted to run away to Berlin.
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