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Artistically staged, the series explores androgyny in relation to Greek mythology, the origin of androgyny. Self-portraits and minimalist images focus the viewer's gaze on the difference between appearance and truth.
The mythology referred to is Plato's Symposium, where Aristophanes tells of the first humans, who were originally spherical with four arms, four legs and two faces. These powerful beings challenged the gods and Zeus punished them by splitting them in half. Since then, the divided halves have been searching for their other half in order to become whole again.
This work was created in collaboration with four other artists (Carl Niklas Enderle, Josephine Kowalewsky, Karline Johanning, Mika Springer), each of whom chose a specific thematic focus within the broad theme of Gender + Photography. Together, the individual works resulted in a collaborative zine and, based on this, a group exhibition at ELSA Artspace in Bielefeld.
© Mika Springer