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For her new work IMMERGRÜN (Evergreen), Loredana Nemes created portraits of longtime couples who had responded to a call for lovers in a local newspaper. She combines her quiet, mysteriously abstract black-and-white portraits with shots of evergreen plants and adds another layer to these images with poems. Old people, often called seniors, are not considered an ideal of beauty in our culture, and it is considered a taboo to show old age in art and media. The couples Loredana Nemes has spoken to and photographed are women and men whose love and intimacy she addresses in these photographs. IMMERGRÜN makes reference to her work BLÜTEZEIT (Blossom Time) from 2012, in which - also initiated and supported by the Ludwigsburg Museum - she portrayed young people on the threshold of adulthood. In both series, she experiments with the possibilities and limits of photography. In IMMERGRÜN she visualizes in analog double exposures the connection of two lovers as well as our inevitable fading away. Her poetic images and poems are a tribute to age and love as well as a celebration of human encounters in times of imposed distance. The result is a sensitive artist's book whose choice of materials and narrative flow creates a multilayered whole.

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Born in Romania in 1972, Loredana Nemes first studied German and Mathematics in Aachen before turning exclusively to photography as an autodidact in 2001. Since then she lives in Berlin and works on photographic series, which she develops over a longer period of time. Nemes' approach is not scientifically cool, but emotionally sensitive. Her photographs captivate not only through the authenticity of their depiction, but also through their artistic visual language, for Nemes seeks a suitable form of photographic expression for each cycle. She constantly questions the medium of photography, its limits and possibilities, and adapts them to the themes of her work: Identity, gender, cultural differences and emotions such as greed, fear, love. The last three culminated in a large solo exhibition of the same name, which Loredana Nemes showed at the Museum Berlinische Galerie in 2018 and in which the artist for the first time presented abstract works as well as her own texts in addition to her portrait photographs.

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