HPR Archive / 2021

Masks, Myths and Subjects

Alexandra Polina

Country
Germany
Edition
HPR 2021

About the project

Masks, Myths and Subjects

The protagonists of the photo series are members of visible minorities who were born, raised and educated in Germany. These images deal with a social gap created by prejudiced stigmatized view and use clichéd folkloric settings and common stereotypes to question it. The result is a collage of individual experiences, based on the common social condition of living as a perceived foreigner in Germany combined with the still-lifes where everyday life objects are exoticized through the way of staging.The stigmatized gaze and construction of foreignness are building central questions of the work.