Beate Haupt: Encounter with Moses
For her exhibition in the Old Synagogue, Beate Haupt, an artist who lives and works in Braunschweig and was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1966, has created a series of works entitled Encounter with Moses. It developed from an image that had been in her mind for years and that had originated while swimming in the Mediterranean: a young man with long hair standing in water. A slight chest blurred the clear attribution to gender. A modern man, yet as if from an old painting, glistening, enveloped in the pale light purple of the water. She wants to show this man, a Moses of today, strong and weak at the same time, struggling with the water, looking around fearfully, striding proudly into the floods, blowing the water away, swimming, drifting. Beate Haupt deliberately leaves no room for the biblical story of parting the waters and walking through them. She wants to show a more everyday story – as it happens today, all over the world.
