About the project

MACHT LIEBE (the German title is ambiguous. It translates as either “make love” or “the power of love” into English) is about love and desire. It is about bodies, desiring and desired bodies, their untameability, tenderness and brutality. It is about power and politics too, about the power wielded by flesh, and the politics embedded in the skin.

Anne Morgenstern invites us to join her in an exploration of the interplay between body and identity, and in a subtle but persistent deconstruction of social norms and expectations surrounding the body. The flux of images, tightly edited and sequenced, allows questions to gradually form in the reader’s mind: what makes a body beautiful and desirable? How are our identities embedded in our body, and how does our body enable us to perform these identities? By questioning what makes a body normal, the work ultimately explores the possibility of happiness and freedom in one’s own body and one’s own desires.