Kien Hoang
Moritz Broszat
Kien:
"Last week I had the opportunity to go to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is a place of treatment as well as a covid 19 test center in Vietnam. After visiting the test results room - where, after conducting an analysis of the patient's samples, doctors will report whether the person has covid 19 or not. This made me think about the definition of safety a lot. my definition of safety is the familiar feeling of coming home, the comfort of meeting my friends or having a steady job. But more broadly, what makes a society safe? In the current epidemic crisis, "safety" is somehow decided in rooms like this."
"Last week I had the opportunity to go to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is a place of treatment as well as a covid 19 test center in Vietnam. After visiting the test results room - where, after conducting an analysis of the patient's samples, doctors will report whether the person has covid 19 or not. This made me think about the definition of safety a lot. my definition of safety is the familiar feeling of coming home, the comfort of meeting my friends or having a steady job. But more broadly, what makes a society safe? In the current epidemic crisis, "safety" is somehow decided in rooms like this."
Moritz:
"For me, safety and freedom are based on one another and go hand in hand. The feeling of safety opens up to me from worry-free action. It is this certain freedom in everyday life that allows such a mind-set and also encourages creativity on my part. Mostly it is purely intellectual concepts that get stuck and from which I want to break away. The liberated 'train of thought' as a driving initiative is based on my well-being. For me, security is made up of support and freedom of choice. Limitations make me feel insecure.
At the moment one might think that security is against freedom. Our lives are currently shaped by drastic restrictions. Restrictions that protect us and thus ensure security. In the wake of this paradoxical situation, I am referring to the emotional value of safety. In the form of stylistics, our photographs subjectively appeal to a certain contradiction between the depiction of security and the suggestion of frightening emptiness. So, the image relates to the term 'security' as an act of control and contrasts 'safety' as an state of protection against harm. I think this gives an indication that reflects the current ongoing general uncertainty and takes up the corresponding mixed emotional state."
"For me, safety and freedom are based on one another and go hand in hand. The feeling of safety opens up to me from worry-free action. It is this certain freedom in everyday life that allows such a mind-set and also encourages creativity on my part. Mostly it is purely intellectual concepts that get stuck and from which I want to break away. The liberated 'train of thought' as a driving initiative is based on my well-being. For me, security is made up of support and freedom of choice. Limitations make me feel insecure.
At the moment one might think that security is against freedom. Our lives are currently shaped by drastic restrictions. Restrictions that protect us and thus ensure security. In the wake of this paradoxical situation, I am referring to the emotional value of safety. In the form of stylistics, our photographs subjectively appeal to a certain contradiction between the depiction of security and the suggestion of frightening emptiness. So, the image relates to the term 'security' as an act of control and contrasts 'safety' as an state of protection against harm. I think this gives an indication that reflects the current ongoing general uncertainty and takes up the corresponding mixed emotional state."