LUBBERLAND (2003)
Modern man wallows in luxury and abundance, observes Bianca Gutberlet. The number of provisions that are available to us is so great that it is impossible to use them all daily. They can only be consumed bit by bit. What could we still possibly want?, Gutberlet asked herself. In the ‘garden of humanity’ all dreams are fulfilled. She visualizes this in Lubberland (2003), which is comprised of environments which have been made by and for people. She bases the compositions and choice of colors on the presentations, as cheery as they are naive, that as a rule are found in travel guides and vacation brochures. Strongly accentuating the sweet colors reinforces the idea of modern society as one immense candy store, in which modern man can brazenly stuff himself. The promises that advertising holds up before us daily become reality for a moment in her photographs.
