![]() Pulling inspiration from disparate art movements and media, Schorr’s invented Germans are tossed through time and identifications. ![]() ![]() Rather than seeing the vestiges of war, she observed a bucolic urge for renewal in a place where an irresolvable history was tolerable. Schorr developed her own approach to the regional vernacular, and in so doing, the countryside began to open up to the artist. Over a period of time Schorr assimilated and became a member of the Schwäbisch Gmünd community – the town photographer – exploring the lives of her German neighbours, friends and family. In a place determined by memory, war, emigration, and rebuilt society, Schorr combines the roles of portraitist, social anthropologist and storyteller. Influenced by reportage, fictional films, and portrait photography, Schorr’s initial forays into the German countryside were made from the imagined position of an entitled outsider: as a character that does not belong, yet has assumed some sort of ownership by returning to a place of historical resonance. Schorr used the landscapes of Sander, Kiefer, Beuys, Baselitz and Chagall as a ground on which to play out imagined and inherited histories of Germany and her own Jewish heritage. Every summer for the past 18 years she has travelled to southern Germany, working in and around the small town of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Structured around the idea of a retrospective, this exhibition draws from a body of work accumulated over 18 years of rigorous practice.Ĭollier Schorr was born and raised in New York, where she has continued to live and work. This will be Collier Schorr’s third solo exhibition with Modern Art. Modern Art is very pleased to announce a new exhibition by the acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr.
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