As a part of our occasional platform for exceptional projects, SPOTLIGHT, we will present a new installation by Berlin based Pola Sieverding.

‍Stigma continues the artists exploration, in a variety of media, of forms of attraction and the subjugation of desire which invariably shapes social interaction. In turning her often lens based eye towards isolated subjects, she realises a cinema of ontological interactions which captures the viewer in the dance of their own gaze, often through the staged exaggeration of psychologically charged objects of desire. Caught in this voyeuristic imaginarium, captured like the sensuous inmates of Genet‘s Un Chant D’Amour, Sieverding realises the transgressive ogling of these contained signs which evoke yearning drenched in polemic stigmatisation and repulsion. Through this entanglement, these arousing images seek to reach beyond the agony of beauty to question the constrictive codes which efficaciously moralise human behaviour.