Sight for sore eyes is a film screening that will act as an intervention of the exhibition Life on its own.

The screening highlights different aspects of storytelling as a tool to investigate the mythical environment in our everyday lives.  

“Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”, it’s not a “woman, but a “woman”. To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theatre.” 

- Susan Sontag, Notes on “Camp”

This is considered under the term camp, a style or sensibility that seeks to express the irony and subversion of mainstream society through a striking aesthetic, as Susan Sonntag defines it in her essay “Notes on Camp”.

The works shown have been removed from their original exhibition context, the serial form of presentation brings the positions together to form an overall “film experience”.

With works by: Maja Li Härdelin, Christine Dahlerup, Evi Jägle, Julian Ernst, Daphne von Schrader, Iris Böhnlein, Charlotte Gash and Lera Weinrub

Photo © Julian Ernst