It provides a unique glimpse behind the scenes, reveals the creativity and wealth of ideas of numerous artists and entrepreneurs and visualizes a situation that has presented us with new social challenges. The vernissage will take place on Friday, July 14, 2023, from 19:00. After the official welcoming addresses by Mayor Ursula Keck and District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier, Museum Director Saskia Dams will introduce the exhibition and take guests on a journey through time.
"Whether it's a hospital employee in a protective suit, mask, gloves and visor looking at the viewer through a pane of glass, or a student studying alone on a laptop with headphones at Korntal-Münchingen secondary school - the photographs that Yakup Zeyrek took during the coronavirus pandemic despite the curfew with special permission from the district are both artistic and valuable testimonies to contemporary history from many different areas of life. The photographs will answer the question in future: What was it actually like back then - and specifically here in the district of Ludwigsburg?" says District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier, explaining the concept behind the exhibition.
Thanks to the aforementioned special permit, Zeyrek was able to photograph the effects of the lockdown in large parts of the district and in all areas of society despite the curfews. Empty indoor swimming pools, committee meetings with masks and social distancing, vaccination centers, a storyteller without an audience - all of this can be seen in Zeyrek's exhibition. He has captured concrete situations, deliberately staged them and yet created a symbol for the general situation, the sensitivities, fears and worries of the population. At the same time, however, his photographs also sparkle with inventiveness, hope and confidence. A balancing act that Zeyrek impressively demonstrates thanks to his photographs.
"We are delighted to be able to show this exhibition to the public. Each and every one of us has had very different experiences during the pandemic. They were often painful, frequently shocking, but sometimes also full of hope and combined with a deep sense of gratitude for all the freedoms that we have taken for granted for many years. Yakup Zeyrek has captured these different emotional states in his very own way," says Lord Mayor Ursula Keck. "The result is a work that reminds us how fragile our society can be and the wealth of ideas we can develop together to adapt to suddenly changing life situations."
It was particularly important to the curators Lisa Cocimano (Ludwigsburg district) and Saskia Dams (city of Kornwestheim) to bring precisely these creative ideas of the people depicted to the fore. The selected and displayed pictures are assigned to different subject areas, for example
