Susan Sontag - Sehen und gesehen werden
In the organizer's words:
Throughout her life, the author, critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag has worked intensively with visual media. Coming from a background in philosophy and literary studies, she clairvoyantly recognized the decisive influence of photography in our media-driven society. As an attractive woman herself, she was a sought-after subject for photographers and used the power of the medium for her own agenda. She described her early encounter with images of the Holocaust as a "negative epiphany" in her life and as the starting point for her further involvement with photography. Film was life, photography a memento mori, she wrote in her first novel The Benefactor in 1963. As a passionate cineaste, Sontag saw film as the "most vivid, exciting and significant of all art genres." As a director, Sontag made four films and also explored the boundaries of visualization and voyeurism in practice. Her self-empowerment as an author and intellectual also included an examination of feminism and the question of what it means to be a woman in today's society. Like her role models Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt, Sontag attached importance to equal recognition as a thinker.
Film is life, photography a memento mori - Susan Sontag
The exhibition Susan Sontag. Seeing and Being Seen focuses on her reflections on photography and traces Sontag's theories and thoughts on the subject. Her preoccupation with queer culture, discrimination against people infected with HIV and her own cancer are also mentioned. Sontag is also shown in her role as a film enthusiast and director, not least to portray her as an independent woman who rebelled against society throughout her life.
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