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Categories: Photography | Text
Keywords: Politics
Works by Marcel Odenbach:
The Great Misunderstanding
Das Schweigen deutscher Räume erschreckt mich The Consumption of My Own Criticism The Distance between Me and my Losses The Untruth of Reason or I Tried to Sleep Away the Problem Piano Concerto for Three Hands and Horribly Out-of-Tune Instruments I Think I Have Lost Myself Keep Your Chin Up! Weep Not Child – Je Ka Bere When the Wall approaches the Table
Marcel Odenbach
«When the Elephant Becomes an Ivory Merchant»
A photo-work dealing with the subject of Germany's autumn of terrorist troubles and the acute phase of activities by the Red Army Fraction (RAF). The central image is a photo released by the RAF of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the employers' association president whom the terrorist group abducted and later murdered. Marcel Odenbach assembles the visual planes of advertising, newspaper photos and text panels to form a series that critically links technology – video surveillance means – with a competitive climate and terrorism. The quote by Herbert Marcuse reads: 'Technology has been transformed into a powerful instrument of ultra-modern rule – and becomes all the more powerful the more it proves its capability to serve those ruled and the politics of domination.'
