| | | | | | | | Benyamin Reich: Mikveh II, Berlin 2019, Fine Art Print, 41 x 41 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP
Courtesy Benyamin Reich & ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE | | | | | | HALLE. IMAGINE. FAMILY. | | | | Three Series of Works | | | | until 13 June, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Benyamin Reich, Untitled, Berlin 2019, Fine Art Print, 41 x 41 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP
Courtesy Benyamin Reich & ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE | | | | | | | Their names are Rebecca, Jeremy, Valentin, Naomi and Ezra. Young Jews living in Berlin gathered in the synagogue in Halle on the afternoon of October 9, 2019, at the time of the Yom Kippur prayer attack. Benyamin Reich portrayed them, the survivors, and also photographed ritual objects. The Old Testament with the open side to Yom Kippur, the shofar, an old instrument from the horn of ram and the etrog, a festive bouquet with a bright yellow citron in the center. Benyamin Reich, like the models he photographed, belongs to the "third generation" after the Shoah. A generation that sees itself as "radically diversified" and lives according to the idea of "kosher light": creative, confident in dealing with tradition and a religiosity that corresponds to their own lifestyle. | | | | | | | | | Benyamin Reich: Abby Stein, Berlin 2017, Fine Art Print, 41 x 41 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP
Courtesy Benyamin Reich & ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE | | | | | | | This generation finds its idea and its effigy in the series "Imagine" created by Reich. A Jewish woman marries a Nazi officer, young gays show their bare torso decorated with tattoos, men wear the uniform hat of Hitler's Leibstandarte, the Waffen SS. If the grandparents of Reich were survivors of the Holocaust, the Berlin-based artist mixed today Victim and perpetrator. He blurs the differences by accenting them. | | | | | | | | | Benyamin Reich: Jew in the Attic, Berlin 2018, Fine Art Print, 37 x 37 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP
Courtesy Benyamin Reich & ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE | | | | | | TV program arte recently showed a feature about art in the seventy-fifth year after the liberation from Auschwitz, which also deals with Reich's work. Journalist Petra Maier says there: "Benyamin Reich has been photographing Jewish life in Germany and Berlin for years and he realizes that reconciliation happens where there is encounter."
More information: here | | | | | | | | | Benyamin Reich: Kuss, Walter-Benjamin-Platz, Berlin 2018, Fine Art Print, 94 x 94 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP
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