Satellite exhibition PORTRAITS Hellerau Photography Award 2024

Opening on 8 November 2024 at 6 pm
Words: Georg Knobloch

The artist writes on her website about the series shown this year at parablau:

In this self-reflexive series created between 2020 and 2023, Cordes turns the camera on her private life and negotiates the relationship with her family. She reconstructs their dynamic, creating a portrait that ranges from self-expression to the inclusion of her mother, father and partner in the story.
In a wondrous way, The Hole in the Bed Sheet Below gives us insights into her interwoven family structure and shows us images of tenderness, yet subtly infused with an underlying distance and hints of a hidden insecurity.
The work is about our collective longing for connection and documents times of transition. It's about the comfort of finding love when you least expect it, but also the terrifying possibility of losing it again. This series is a search for authentic relationship, intimacy and the fear of losing it - a multi-layered reflection on family.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version) from https://marinacordes.de/The-Hole-in-the-Bed-Sheet-Below