Phrases
November 4, 2026–January 23, 2027
Christiane Feser
Galerie Anita Beckers
DE
Photographs, which cannot explain anything on their own, are endless invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy. Susan Sontag, *On Photography* (1977)
With *Wendungen*, die Galerie , Anita Beckers presents the fourth solo exhibition by Frankfurt am Main-based artist Christiane Feser (born 1977 in Würzburg, Germany). Following* Exhibitions * *Bedingungen* (2018), *Dazwischen, ein Echo* (2021), and *Über Flächen* (2023/24), *Wendungen* marks a new phase in Feser’s work. At the center of the exhibition is *Synonyme*, a recently created series of photographic works in which Feser expands her artistic exploration of perception, photography, and the reality of the image to include a new dimension: for the first time, color takes center stage in her work. In *Synonyme*, the artist engages in-depth with color spaces for the first time, exploring their psychology of perception and (spatial) theory.
The motifs open up visual spaces that defy clear categorization and invite ever-new conclusions, speculations, and fantasies. What at first glance resembles mountain landscapes, velvety drapery, or digitally generated computer worlds turns out, upon closer inspection, to be a visual reality constructed by hand by the artist.
Feser deliberately works with the tension between recognition and deception. In doing so, she continues to explore a central question in her body of work to date while also tying into a fundamental debate in photographic theory—one that the American cultural theorist Susan Sontag helped shape significantly: What makes a photographic image credible? And what underpins our trust in what we see?
Given the increasing prevalence of digitally manipulated and artificially generated images, this debate has taken on particular relevance today.
Opening: Wednesday , November 4, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Exhibition: through January 23, 2027
Artist Talk: Sunday, November 22, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Anita Beckers Gallery
Braubachstraße 9,
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +069 921 019 72
Email: info@galerie-beckers.de