Isabelle Le Minh combines media art and industrial history - as the title of her Dresden exhibition also expresses. PENTAMENT is a newly formed word, a combination of the company name VEB Pentacon (Dresden) and Pentimento. Pentimento refers to the traces of form-finding in painting and also includes the possibility of later reinterpretation.
The French media artist and photographer Isabelle Le Minh has been conducting extensive research in the photo and object collections of the Dresden Technology Collections since the beginning of 2021. She is presenting her findings - three completely new groups of works - as a large installation in the temporary exhibition space. Le Minh utilises methods of artistic appropriation, shifts in meaning and significance and the alienation of representation techniques. Museum and media-historical forms of presentation are quoted and reinterpreted.
One part of the exhibition is dedicated to the different roles of men and women and thus elements of body language. For example, the gestures of the hands are present - extracted from sections of the photographic originals: The small hands of the female workers on the assembly lines, the long, smooth, carefully manicured female hands of the models in advertising shots, the male hands that carry large appliances, sign contracts, hand over medals, fill champagne glasses, for example.
PENTAMENT also sees itself as a homage to the museum's collections and their often hidden potential. It is generally about industrial production processes, about the change from analogue to digital recording technologies, about history, about the status and cultural memory of things - about memory.
