Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom East Berlin

Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom East BerlinMACK 2024 Clara Kim (ed.) This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the first US retrospective of Paul Pfeiffers acclaimed multi disciplinary practice at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Presenting era defining photo and video works alongside his latest experiments in sculpture and installation, this volume reflects Pfeiffers use of a wealth of recent technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. Throughout his

Also included is a signed and numbered 10x8” silver gelatin contact print

these spaces underscore his deep interest in the preservation of buildings and his deliberate interventions within existing architecture

Balk engenders precious moments of pause and contemplation

The approximately 100 plates include the full set of 50 photographs from “Stadtbilder” plus 50 additional pictures that Wüst only recently printed from original negatives

The artist explores their desires and fluid identity

historical essays

Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives

these documents describe the building’s lived life

memory and history

All of the pictures were made within a 1-mile radius of the artists’ home in south London

Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage

he reflects on constructions of masculinity