Familiar Moments 7
Artist
Barbara Diener
(German, born 1982)
Date2008
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/4 × 20 in. (33.7 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Stephen Auger, 2013
Object number2013.1.3
DescriptionSpa-like interior with two blue tubs of water and a wooden tub of water. Two women are partially submerged in the left tub, gazing at one another, with their arms on the edge of the tub.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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