Brigitte Konyen: Between Fact and Fiction

© Brigitte Konyen

About The Exhibition: Between Fact and Fiction

Exhibition curator: Roberto Muffoletto

The VASA exhibition by Brigitte Konyen entitled “Between Fact and Fiction” contains four portfolios: Snapshots, Family Album, Enfance (childhood) and All or Nothing. Her work is a mixture of collage, image manipulation and family album.  

Konyen states that her reconstruction of her family history is a play between facts understood as historical, and the fiction of her creation.  She asks us to connect various elements of photographs reconstructed into historical collages, a family album showing images of her and her father (a fictional construction), and another set of family photographs viewed through pergamin interleaving filtering out a clear view of the past.  In the end the viewer is given a glimpse of an exhibition display that refers to a personal genealogy reconstructing her history of unfilled loves and “whose who”; a construction of fictional relationships between her and “pop” stars, teenage dreams and longings for love.

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.