Alliance, Infinity, Love – In the Face of the Other

Today 11:00 – 18:00 h

The main exhibition of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, curated by Mark Sealy, celebrates the cultural and artistic diversity of photography and its healing and transformative power. It creates an open, polyphonic space of encounter that questions societal polarizations and seeks to overcome the division between “us” and the “other”. At the same time, the exhibition renders tangible the ethical principles underpinning the festival “Alliance, Infinity, Love – In the Face of the Other” as a lived experience.

The exhibition presents around 30 artistic positions spanning photography, video, and film, recounting stories rooted in a wide range of places and cultural experiences—from Australia and Japan to Lebanon and Palestine, from Brazil and Jamaica to South Africa, Brussels or London, and Greenland.

The artists form a transglobal community, exploring new forms of experience and sharing. Their works reflect personal stories, emotional states, and socio-political entanglements. Thematically, they revolve around questions of identity, liberation, and community; visibility and invisibility; spirituality and pain; desire and intimacy and, throughout, the transformative power of love and artistic creativity.

Please note that the exhibition ALLIANCE, INFINITY, LOVE — IN THE FACE OF THE OTHER includes works that depict sexuality and nudity and are not suitable for children.

Featuring works by Laura Aguilar, Hélène Amouzou, Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, Didier Ben Loulou, Dawoud Bey, Sandra Brewster, Jasmina Cibic, Mário Cravo Neto, Brenda L. Croft, Mónica de Miranda, Omar Victor Diop, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Arlene Gottfried, Eikoh Hosoe, Mao Ishikawa, Lee Jaffe, Babak Kazemi, Sakir Khader, Derik Lynch, Teresa Margolles, José Medeiros, Randa Mirza, Tyler Mitchell, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ebony G. Patterson, Raphaela Rosella, Lee Shulman, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Chuck Stewart, Inuuteq Storch, Stephanie Syjuco, Lara Tabet, Matthew Thorne, Nil Yalter among others.

All brochures from all exhibitions of the 9th Hamburg Photography Triennial in a slipcase. Published by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, released by adocs Verlag. With texts by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Jessica Bock, Gisela Cánepa, Christine Chávez, Corinne Diserens, Aruna D’Souza, Harald Falckenberg, Belinda Grace Gardner, Luisa Hahn, Lisa Hellriegel, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Emilie Houssa, Wolfgang Kaleck, Melike Kara, Sebastian Lux, Walther Maradiegue, Franziska Mecklenburg, Sarah Messerschmidt, Claire Müller, Sara Munro, Anna Nowak, Sophie Charlotte Opitz, Catherine Perret, Nina Porter, Sara Sallam, Laura Schmidt, Sabine Schnakenberg, Mark Sealy, Sinthujan Varatharajah, and Keren Yehezkel. 550 pages, slipcase, German/English, 100 illustrations (some full-page), 32 x 23 x 9 cm, 45 €

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