Familiar Moments 3
Artist
Barbara Diener
(German, born 1982)
Date2008
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 13 5/16 x 20 in. (33.8 x 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Stephen Auger, 2013
Object number2013.1.2
DescriptionTwo women of different ages seated side-by-side on a couch in a living room, holding a large album with a heart on the cover. The room décor is characterized by a large plush leopard on one arm of the couch and a romantic landscape painting on the wall above the couch.eMuseum Notes
Diener provides a youthful perspective on vulnerability, identity, and belonging in these evocative photographs from early in her career. Her body of work Familiar Moments focuses on her quest for self and a sense of home, stemming from her dual citizenship in Germany and America. In these staged portraits, the artist often appears with strangers in public or in their homes, creating a dubious family album of her feelings, fantasies, and stereotyped views of family in settings that are foreign, yet still soothing and intimate.
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