Video: "Human Patterns" by Claudia Rogge
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
German photographer and performance artist Claudia Rogge creates intricate designs that are not flowers or abstract curls, but people. In this regard, the author calls himself a “human artist”, and his works - “human patterns”.
In order to create each of her works, Claudia has to simultaneously act as a director, choreographer, photographer and collage artist. The author invites several people to his studio and requires them to perform the same actions. At the same time, her imagination knows no bounds: the heroes of Rogge's works throw tomatoes at each other, climb ladders, bathe in dusty foam … The author does not shoot the entire crowd at the same time, each photograph captures one person or a couple in certain poses. The result of this crazy photo shoot is several thousand pictures, from which Claudia will have to make a collage. The author says that dance, theater, opera and circus are important sources of inspiration for her.
The main theme of Claudia Rogge's work is the relationship between the individual and the crowd. According to the author, she developed an interest in the crowd while studying communications in Berlin and Essen. Parades, choirs, refugee groups, concertgoers, football fans … The fascination with the crowd and its psychology turned out to be so strong that Claudia devoted all her work to studying it. Rogge's digital collages raise difficult questions about whether people in the crowd remain individuals or turn into a single faceless mass, whether it is possible, surrounded by thousands of people, seized by a single impulse to remain themselves, and whether the crowd lends itself to outside control.
Claudia Rogge was born in 1968. Lives and works in Dusselforf. More "human patterns" can be found on the author's website.
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