Anna Ehrenstein – On Decolonising Lens based Practices – PhotoIreland Festival 2020
Channel: PhotoIreland
Date: 2020-07-09

The 11th edition of PhotoIreland Festival launched via Zoom at 6pm on Wednesday 8 July 2020 with an introduction by Director Ángel Luis González, followed by a performance by Albanian Berlin-based artist Anna Ehrenstein ‘On Decolonising Lens-based Practices'.

As is cited on her website, Anna Ehrenstein is an interdisciplinary artist living between Berlin, Cologne, Tirana, and the cloud. Her work presents personal meditations and reflections around migration-related material culture and diasporic narrations, with an ever present use of contemporary technology where these self-representation discourses are abound. Lens based media, installation, social moments, sculpture, print or writing – Ehrenstein’s artistic practice is diverse and above all interdisciplinary. She studied photography and media art and attended curatorial courses, and some of her recent projects include Tales of Lipstick and Virtue and Tools for Conviviality.

She has exhibited widely in festivals and galleries such as in Circulations at the Centquatre in Paris, the Month of Photography in Los Angeles, the Organ Vida Festival in Zagreb, the Rencontres de la Photography in Arles, and of course at PhotoIreland Festival as part of the group show The Recount of Conflict, presented in Pallas Projects in 2017.

In her practice as an art mediator she prioritises working with diverse social groups, in educational and collaborative formats, for example as part of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art or within the Young Arts Neukölln Art Centre in Berlin, and also in 2019 during PhotoIreland Festival where she hosted a super fun and engaging Workshop on Selfies and Portraits, as part of the Critical Academy programme called Magic Insta Material at Rathfarnham Castle.

Find out more about Anna Ehrenstein at https://annaehrenstein.com
The PhotoIreland Festival 2020 programme can be found at https://2020.photoireland.org