A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how the vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other. The reassuring words All Sorted (Alles in Ordnung) stand for a fevered “organizing” of the yearned-for and yet also somehow menacing liberation from workaday life – with the paradoxical result that even vacation time ends up being packed full of structured activities. Meichsner explores in a subtle and humorous fashion the question of whether, in a society dominated more and more by job insecurity and – of necessity – flexibility, we might today be witnessing a burgeoning desire for boring, safe predictability.
Andreas Meichsner is a 38-year-old German photographer living and working in Berlin. His art focuses on contemporary aspects of Western European society, in particular dealing with the seemingly increasing need for security and structure and its significance for people. His work has been awarded several times and has been presented at festivals including Rencontres d’Arles, the F/stop Festival in Leipzig and Getxophoto in Spain.
All Sorted
September 5 – October 14, 2012
Galerija „Meno parkas“
Rotušės a./sq. 27,
Kaunas
Lituanie
