honorable mention
Kati Bruder austria
title
WE - THE REST OF US. Looking for the ideal community.
Capacity: 33 beds (single rooms in construction containers)
Kati Bruder lives in Vienna and works internationally.
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entry description
I photograph people who – through spatial circumstances – are externally perceived as a group. Here I meet different communities of similar fate self-organised and temporary communities. WE – THE REST OF US is a project about perception and formation of communities within our society, about the development of a WE sentiment, about social cohesion as well as exclusion, loneliness, spatial closeness, isolation, visibility and representation. At every specific location I always ask the residents to open their front doors and to position themselves in their front rooms. I examine the relationship between the inside view on different communities, their spatial condition and solidarity. Both: the reflection on what we see and the act of looking as a process shaped by culture plays an important role in my work. The following questions emerge: At what point does one develop a sense of community based on spatial proximity? Does this sense of belonging become heightened by an external threat? What are the elements required for a community to establish a sense of „us“? The pictures submitted were made in Vinzidorf in July 2019. VinziDorf is a permanent hostel for male alcoholic homeless people.The VinziDorf plays a pioneering role in the care of homeless alcoholic persons and has opened a new path in the housing supply through its low threshold access (substandard in the structural quality - high standard in the social quality). Particularly noteworthy is the social work approach, the living conditions and especially the addictive behavior of the residents do not want to change from the outside, but every single "to accept as it is."Capacity: 33 beds (single rooms in construction containers)
about the photographer
Kati Bruder (1978, Graz) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (graduated in 2015), where Peter Kodera taught her how to use a camera. Since 2003 she has been working as a freelance photographer with a focus on portraits. In her photo series Kati Bruder explores the ambiguity of visibility, searching for answers to the following questions: how do our social status and gender affect our visual perception? What are we allowed to see by whom? What role is played by the symbolic significance of the gaze and what poses do we strike as soon as a camera is pointed at us?Kati Bruder lives in Vienna and works internationally.
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