PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE – Lenka Kesting shows photos of religious places and rites. Martin Kesting shows quasi-sacred sculptures made from found
Image gallery
Götterbatterie 01 – Lenka Kesting
Götterbatterie 02 – Martin Kesting
Götterbatterie 03 – Lenka Kesting
Götterbatterie 04 – Martin Kesting
Götterbatterie
objects, including Berlin bomb debris from the Second World War.
“The actual existence of the depicted deity is irrelevant; the effect is based on the concentration of psychic forces contained in its image. … This continuous ‘storage’ of energy takes place in the image of the god through the worship it receives, through the believer’s focused thought.”
Alexandra David-Néel, “India and Tibet”
Lenka traces this storage process, in the sense of David-Néel, with her photographs of religious sites and rituals. Martin’s quasi-sacred sculptures made from found objects, including Berlin bomb debris from the Second World War, approach the theme in an animistic way.
