What happens when kitsch meets naked skin?
Eva Borrmann asks herself this question in the production SOFT FOCUS and thus begins a three-year exploration of the theme of kitsch.
Many people still know them, the pictures of photographer and director David Hamilton, who achieved fame with kitschy nude photographs of underage girls in the 1970s. His trademark: The Soft Focus. In an intimate performance, Eva Borrmann escalates these staged body images and confronts us with questions about the body and power. What has been left out of the soft-focus photographs slowly moves to the surface. A language all of its own emerges. Ironic and absurd images emerge, recycling what kitsch has left of stereotypical body images.
With this aesthetic negotiation of kitschy images of women from the past and present, PLAN MEE once again poses questions about the "socially formed body".

The production also includes a foldable photo book by the Marseille and Berlin-based photographer and artist Arina Essipowitsch. The work stands on its own and begins where Eva Borrmann's stage production ends. Arina expands the discussion with her own photographic signature, which she uses in her encounters with the performers to create new images of the dancers' real bodies. Like Hamilton, she works in analogue, but presents her work in a more coarse-grained, often black-and-white and folded way. No room for soft-painted kitsch.

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