Trash The Musical

Loretta Fahrenholz elaborated the film Trash The Musical (2023) over the last two years in collaboration with performance artist Alicia McDaid. Assembled into a wild post-cinematic collage by Fahrenholz, McDaid's performances are a radical exploration of personal anxieties and questions of aging, unfulfilled dreams, ghosting, and the difference between art and trash. Two new image series, Once Upon a Time in Enemy-Occupied France and i make mistakes just to learn who i am (both 2023), are a continuation of Fahrenholz's interest in the processes of digital imagery.

The catalog includes two essays written by Felix Bernstein and Magnus Schaefer. Trash The Musical by Loretta Fahrenholz is the third and final exhibition to take place as part of the program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving curated by Dennis Brzek and Junia Thiede. The publication is designed by HIT and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.