Lynne Cohen
24.06.2023 – 19.08.2023
Works 1977–1981
Jacky Strenz
Trained as a sculpture and printmaker, Lynne Cohen started in the 1970s to focuse on the psychological and sociological artifice of the emerging North-American middle class. Using an 8 x 10-inch camera, she photographed living rooms, small stores, semi-public spaces such as men’s clubs, banquet halls, hotel lobbies, and offices. In the 1980s, Cohen went a step further and became interested in the mechanisms for controlling and manipulating society. She began to focus on more authoritarian institutions such as laboratories, police and military training centers, classrooms, and shooting ranges. In the 1990s Cohen introduced spas, and in 2000, without changing her subject, she began taking color photographs.
Lynne Cohen’s photographs are not just sociological or psychological, however. They are also characterized by a pointed humor. None of her subjects are staged or interfered with scenarios. What she depicted was what she found. Her equally thorough and systematic and precise. Regardless of the spaces the artist photographed, her concern was always the same: the world as finished installations, often referencing conceptual art, pop art, or minimalism.
Jacky Strenz
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