Project Leitmotive Outlook

An image journey by involuntary memories

A journey into what we don’t know, but experienced

Six stages grounding in quintessential turning points. Gaterhing sixteen videos, photographs, and mixed-media or video sculptures by an intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition presents a partial picture of how feminist legacies of video and digital diaries have expanded formally, conceptually, and politically. The exhibition brings together works by Alex Ayed, Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard, Sophie Gogl, Kristin Lucas, Sarah Lucas, Rindon Johnson, Jota Mombaça, Ken Okiishi, Hannah Perry, Frances Stark, Martine Syms, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tromarama, Hannah Wilke.

This reader was envisioned as a continuation of the exhibition and brings together fourteen contributions by writers, artists, and curators. In addition to ten meditations on the works, from sharp analyses to poetic interpretations and creative writing, the publication includes several artistic responses: a poem by Jota Mombaça, a textual and photographic parallel to Wolfgang Tillmans’s work by Mona Varichon, and an email exchange between Line Ajan and Alex Ayed.

Digital Diaries includes texts by Line Ajan, Boris Atrux-Tallau, Alex Ayed, Jade Meili Barget, Harry C. H. Choi, Anahita Delcorde, Lou Ferrand, Amelia Groom, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Kat Kitay, Christian Liclair, Lisa Long, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Jota Mombaça, Mona Varichon, Günseli Yalcinkaya.

Published by Julia Stoschek Foundation
Editorial Concept by Line Ajan and Luise Pilz