TSUKUBA - NARITA 2011/03/13
»Tsukuba - Narita 2011/03/13 is Liebchen’s immediate artistic reaction to the earthquake-tsunami-reactor-catastrophe in Japan in March 2011 and questions the medial truthfulness of images in the context of global news reporting. Almost like a road movie, the images present in chronological sequence the view from a bus window while travelling to Narita Airport outside of Tokyo. Jens Liebchen states: »I left Japan two days after the quake. The situation was unclear. Information from Japanese and Western media differed to a great extent. The bus to Narita left on time, as usual.« Liebchen´s 80 images have their origins in an artistic scepticism that even questions itself. In a virtuosic and complex manner their perception subverts a dilemma regarding a kind of recognition that will one day affect us too.«Christoph Schaden
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