Tales of Lipstick and Vertue
Allemagne
2018artiste Jury
Anna Ehrenstein is German and from Albanian origins. Her feeling of belonging to neither cultures gave birth to her desire to work on the notion of identity. She decided to focus on Albanian women who assert their femininity by wearing flashy clothes and knockoff accessories. Tales of lipstick and virtue questions the place of women in a post-communist society, the shift from original to imitation, or from nature to artificiality.
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About the artist
Anna Ehrenstein is from Albanian origins and was born in Germany in 1993. She lives andworks in Cologne and Berlin. She graduated from her curriculum in photography at the Dormunt University. Since then, her artistic approach combines photography, video, installation and live performances, through which she focuses on the concepts of gender, of class and power. Her work was displayed in many European countries, including Ireland, at the PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin. She was also nominated for numerous prizes, such as the Author’s Residency at the Fondation des Treilles, in France. She currently works onher first monograph with the Éditions Bessard.