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kathrin gunter
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Focusing on young female media stars, the artist's work reveals the pseudo scandal beneath the alleged perfect appearance of celebrities within paparazzi photography.
Widely documented and broadcasted disasters, such as Kate Moss' affection for cocaine or Britney Spears' inability to successfully park her car , provoke Kathrin Günter to stage
her version of these scenes in front of her own camera.
Star shots 2 visualises the crack in the mask, which, seductively glittering, slowly gives way under the pressure of constant observation and the inevitably destructive desire of self in-scene-ing, to eventually break open, scattering the myriad alleged scandals and tragedies, which the hungry public eye is waiting for day after day: The
blank bareness in all its eerie, dazzling splinters.
This work playfully emphasises the absurdity on which the female star cult is based and the damaging consequences that a daily “in-scene-ing” can extend to.
Leaving behind the easy-to-identify aesthetics of former mainstream paparazzi photography which the previous series adopted, the protagonists, both in front of and behind the camera, come out of their protective camouflage to carefully assist each other in finally choosing and publishing the most suitable moment.
Star shots 2 is a digital collage of real public paparazzi imagery and Günter's very own and private interpretation of the protagonist's in-scene-ing. Kathrin Günter is hereby both, the observer and the alleged observed, the paparazzi and the star, director and actor in a public play.
Website fotokatie.com/doku.php?id=starshots:the_archive
