The FIRST POST,  5. Juni 09

Claudia Rogge's in-crowd

Claudia Rogge looks at a crowd and sees a challenging work of art. She continually photographs hordes of people - or rather, makes digital collages that look like hordes of people - to query the individual part we each play within the crowd. Arranged either in repetition, tessellation or in choreographed groups, her figures represent the unique little tiles that form an intricate mosaic. En masse they pose all sorts of ponderous, wranglesome questions about conformity, identity and pack mentality, but they also illicit a more immediate response; the aesthetic patterns they create satisfy our craving for order and routine, while their swarming, uncontrollable bodies give that much-needed hint of chaos.

Holly Kyte

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/48238,arts,photography-claudia-rogges-in-crowd


Claudia Rogge: A Retrospective at the Moscow Museum of Art until June 17, 2009. 9 Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow,  Russia