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With "Library en core", Heidi Specker 's showcase exhibition focuses on the library as a cultural space for negotiation. Feuilleton and social media currently refer to this context again with the fashion trend "librariancore".

The starting point is the b/w photograph "Untitled Filmstill #13" by Cindy Sherman. The cliché of the librarian who reaches into the bookshelf and quotes outdated fashionable drawers is questioned by Sherman in an iconic and critical way in her assignment of female roles as early as 1978. The term "core", which describes current fashion trends, is taken up by Specker and clearly characterised as an outdated repetition of the "well-read lady" by modifying it to "en core". The "librariancore" propagates a fashion trend that adds contemporary accessories to what librarians wear according to the clichéd image in films and books. However, with items such as narrow reading glasses, grey tights and pencil skirts, the trend remains stuck in the cliché and continues to confirm it. The title "Library en core" makes it clear - this is too much for Heidi Specker.

In the exhibition, Specker joins Sherman, makes use of current Sherman merchandising from the art world and says: "I'd rather be swimming!"

>>> The event is part of the annual programme for the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library. More information...