Pair / Unpair, Bauhaus Dessau, 2024

serie of 13 C-Prints, 70 x 60 cm, framed behind glass, 1 C-Print behind acrylic, 130 x 110 cm, 3 C-Prints, 24 x 30 cm,
1 photography by Lucia Moholy, 1 photography by Benjamin Subtil

Margret Hoppe was a resident artist at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 2024. The conceptual starting point of her photographic work was the examination of duplications. In addition to the Muche | Schlemmer House – where the artists in residence live and work – two reference images of the Masters’ Houses form the framework: a photograph by Lucia Moholy and a two-part image by photographer Benjamin Subtil. In correspondence with the Masters’ Houses, in each of which one half of the building is rotated 90 degrees, Hoppe has also rotated the back of the camera 90 degrees, creating double exposures. In her twelve-part series, Hoppe forms pairs. This happens through the double exposure in the pictures themselves or through similarities and neighbourhoods between the shots. At the same time, these pairs are repeatedly uncoupled by single images (unpair).

text by Barbara Steiner, director Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

This series was created during a residency at House Muche, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, supported by Dessau Masters’ Houses Foundation