Sarah Schumann: Shock Collages 1957–1964

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Sarah Schumann: Shock Collages 1957–1964Sarah Schumann (19332019) is one of the most influential artists in postwar West Germany and is regarded as a key figure in the new womens movement in 1970s Berlin. At the heart of her work are the 'shock collages' she made between 1954 and 1964 using images from magazines, illustrated books, and her own photographs. Typically romanticized at first as a flirtation with Dadaism and surrealism, Schumanns imagery was soon recognized as tackling feminist,

Rooted in the same sense of longing – for the imagined comfort of warm blue water and an escape from one’s familiar surroundings – these complementary sensory worlds form a kind of mirage: a prism of banal surfaces

in which the objects can be read as a coded representation of identity: in his 21-part work A Possible Ordering

The punk band Carambolage sings

so this new facsimile edition is significant

Christina Catherine Martinez profiles Reynaldo Rivera

& Jannis Zell

Przemyslaw Strozek

Mikala Dwyer

Questions of agency

and repetition

The catalog traces this unique project

in Bologna in 1978 a few weeks after they had met

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