Tile on the Overlapping of Places in the Art of Rainer Oldendorf

Brian Holmes used literary and philosophical sources to explore the photography and filmography of Rainer Oldendorf as if it were an endless novel, linking places and people in an expanding itinerant biography. How can we recognise a "place" in the contemporary world? How can we explain the persistent fiction of a political dimension in this work? At what point does the narrative meet the exterior? At each bend in the road, the artist answers the critic and gradually opens the space to a broader debate with the public. Brian Holmes, art critic and translator, lives in Paris. He is a doctor in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Berkeley (California) and is particularly interested in the intersections between artistic and political practices. He is a regular contributor to the contemporary art magazine Parachute, among others.