Bio:
Astrid Reischwitz is an award-winning photographer whose work centers around themes of memory, identity, place, and home. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, her current work also incorporates embroidery and examines personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, and numerous private collections.
Her first monograph “Spin Club Stories” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022.
Statement:
The Taste of Memory explores personal and collective family narratives woven through still life compositions, intertwining threads of home, heritage, and identity.
Old recipes from my village in Northern Germany serve as a starting point for my still life compositions. The Taste of Memory serves as a portal to the heart of home, a goodbye to a memory lost and an invitation to create a new recipe, a new memory, and a new story.
