Images 1, 3, 5: Cordula Ditz, They Speak to Us in Dreams, 2024, Video still
Images 2, 4, 6: Installation view: Cordula Ditz – They Speak to Us in Dreams, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024, Photo: Antje Sauer
Cordula Ditz
They Speak to Us in Dreams
26.10.–14.11.2024
In her works, Cordula Ditz examines how our conceptions of gender roles and identity are shaped, reproduced and reinforced, by the media in particular. The artist uses found material from the Internet or from books, magazines and films, which she integrates into her paintings and videos in the form of collages and montages. In this way, she creates visual worlds that reveal their own constructed nature.
At Kunsthaus Hamburg, Cordula Ditz is presenting her new work They Speak to Us in Dreams for the first time. The video and sound installation is based on intensive research conducted on female artists whose existence and work have been erased from the male-dominated production of art-historical knowledge for centuries. Using various AI image generators, she has conceived a fabulous, surrealistic animation about the invisibility of women in art history. She employs the flawed nature of artificial intelligence as a form of representation for lost memories which, as a result of the power imbalance between the sexes, have led to the erasure of female artists from our collective memory.
Exhibition text
Soundtrack of the video work
Cordula Ditz’s (*1972, Hamburg, GER) multi-media practice focuses on questions concerning memory, perception, gender roles as well as the construction and deconstruction of history. Solo and group exhibitions include: Vitrines Galerie Le Bailli, Brussels, BEL (2023); Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, GER (2022); Hamburger Kunsthalle, GER (2022); Esther Schipper, Berlin, GER (2021); Cave Gallery, Detroit, USA (2017); Galerie Conradi, Brussels, BEL (2017). Cordula Ditz lives and works in Hamburg.
Opening
Fri, 25.10.2024, 7 pm
