With her photo series Journal implicite (2008–2012), Lydia Flem presents a veritable reinvention of portrait photography. She uses various different objects to represent her personal history: for instance the illness that she overcame, the history of her parents, who survived the Nazi death camps, and material from 20th-century history in a wider sense. She shows all this in an artistic, mischievous, kaleidoscope-like play of epochs and European settings entirely in the sense of Walter Ben…
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