HELGA PARIS
EXHIBITION May 1 — Jun 5, 2010
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HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/helga-paris/8e6a14e226-1539259435/03_helga-paris_copyright-helga-paris_courtesy-kicken-berlin-50x50.jpg)
HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/helga-paris/e0b5ecd7a3-1539259433/04_helga-paris_copyright-helga-paris_courtesy-kicken-berlin-50x50.jpg)
HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/helga-paris/9d807cb360-1539259452/05_helga-paris_copyright-helga-paris_courtesy-kicken-berlin-50x50.jpg)
HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/helga-paris/2a185846ba-1539259432/06_helga-paris_copyright-helga-paris_courtesy-kicken-berlin-50x50.jpg)
HELGA PARIS (*1938)
Untitled, from the series 'Friedrichshain, Berlin', 1993
gelatin silver print, printed 2010
26,5 x 39,8 cm
© Helga Paris / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/helga-paris/e0ed9ab90c-1539259466/07_helga-paris_copyright-helga-paris_courtesy-kicken-berlin-50x50.jpg)
Exhibition Text
Twenty years Hanzlová’s senior, Helga Paris also confronts situations that she finds irritating and ambivalent. On display in Kicken II are works from her series Friedrichshain (1993), a series born of the upheavals that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall – and related soul-searching on the part of the artist. In the Volkspark Friedrichshain, a park not far from her Berlin apartment, Paris experimented with a new visual language, one that made room for her own memories and subjective perceptions. With close-ups, crops, and passages that are intentionally out of focus, she shaped personal pictures into a photographic narrative that encompasses both poetic and threatening moments. (Carolin Förster)