Sigrid Ehemann
Artist Statement
My images are based on an ongoing series titled “Portraits in Pink”, the colour of empowerment. The project started when Corona had not hit our lives in such terrible ways yet as it has now. The idea was that of playing with what fashion can bring to identity and self-expression. This new work indicates my hope that we will find ways to re-imagine a future that started so cruelly a few months ago, and that our world will still be as colourful, playful and humorous as these images, even if it also remains challenging and even terrifying.
Artist Bio
Sigrid Ehemann is a photo based artist, writer and creator of book objects, living and working in Germany. Her preferred media are photography, text and collage, all of which she uses to deal with contemporary phenomena such as sexism, ageism, social media, or the celebrity cult, mostly in highly political but also weird and funny ways, in an aesthetically often over-the-top style, such as in her photobooks Bruno is a Celebrity and Pussy Magazine #1-3, the latter a spoof fashion magazine. Her work has been shown at festivals and exhibition spaces mainly in Europe and the USA.
