Publisher's Synopsis
'From Far Away' features photographs from, and about, the GDR (East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic which was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War). The works on display are photographs by others and of their own (used again) that the artists have appropriated and re-released for fresh viewing. Some of these works go beyond appropriation on the visual plane to interlock image and text in transmedial approaches, using one as the foil to the other and vice versa.
