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Ulf Aminde: Schamdruck (The Pressure of Pudency), 2009
In a park, amidst the towers of the banking district of night-time Frankfurt, three persons incidentally meet: a female investment banker, a junkie, and a male prostitute. Together, they embody the social reality and the polarizing clichés of the German banking capital just as well as the problems and conflicts arising within a small family. The three “exemplary figures” begin to talk about morals, responsibility, and guilt, their language as well as their body language proving their indecisiveness and anxiety. This confrontation leads to emotional capitulation, but to some sort of letting go, too. “In the aftermath of the conversation going on between the three protagonists, people accidentally passing by collectively fall to the ground. We simply asked a lot of people to lay down, at night, in the park, to lay down leisurely and lustfully in front of the camera, which was a beautiful alleviation of the heavy meaning and all the things not verbally expressed in this family reunion”, Ulf Aminde notes. He stages this confrontation of individual life-styles and/or aims in life and social role play in the realm of finance and capitalism, in the drug scene, and in prostitution with authentic persons belonging to these scenes, and without prepared script. The street is his stage, the persons and their biographies his plot, the dramatic structure evolves because of the tense interaction between the artist and the actors. This open process allows to “formulate the disbelief in the concept of society that society itself has”, says Aminde.
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