Since the birth of photography, it has remained in a loving embrace with its older kissing cousin, painting. They serve each other, inspire each other, and swap roles. But this intimate relationship carries a whiff of shame, as the lovers don’t like to appear in public together. The exhibition Constellations tries to break this taboo. We display paintings and photographs side by side as separate and not codependent beings—they have not known or seen each other before, although they tell similar stories. We paired the works of 19 artists as an exercise in imagination and for a special experience: how can photographic and painterly visions of the world complement one another while each maintaining their full autonomy?
