The image for the billboard is part of the “kennen” series, which was created back in 2002. Annette Kisling visits a park, the Bosse Valley, where she spent a lot of time as a child. The Bosse, the stream that gives the park its name, is surrounded for long stretches by overgrown vegetation. Refuges of seclusion are created that are ideal for imagining oneself in another world and building dams in a child’s imagination. When the photographs were taken in 2002, the place still resembled the images of memory. Now, more than twenty years later, the natural scene depicted in the photographs asserts itself as a parallel and autonomous space that is neither accessible nor inaccessible.
Annette Kisling lives in Berlin and Leipzig. She studied at the art academies in Kassel, Offenbach and Hamburg. This was followed by longer periods of work in Zurich, Rotterdam, Paris, Marfa, Venice, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Annette Kisling has been a professor of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig since 2009. In photographic series, she describes her experiences with the nature and architecture surrounding her. In recent years, the modernism of the 20th century has been a clear focus here.
