Julia Theek

Female Portrait Gallery

To mark the 600th anniversary of the University of Rostock, the existing historical gallery was to be juxtaposed with a current exhibition of portraits of female professors.
To make the process as democratic as possible, the 47 women submitted photographs, which I reinterpreted digitally. As a counter-design to the extra-wide gold frames with oval image sections of the dark canvas oil paintings of the men, I developed uniformly light backgrounds and at least four colour tones per portrait. Discarded transport tins for 35mm film reels served as picture carriers. The 5 cm deep plastic painting backgrounds were given a uniform appearance with splashes of colour, which makes them appear more colourful, lighter and more feminine.

Factsheet

Dimensions
42cm, 42cm, 5cm (Height, Width, Depth)
Weight
1kg
Year
2019
Edition
47
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