The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle Mein uses the camera as

Mein uses the camera as a way to destabilise familiar scenes and to explore notions of home or belonging in an increasingly transitory world

a now classic photobook by Michael Schmidt (1945-2014)

notably filled with dazzling light) to capture images which exaggerate the use of light and the after image produced by it

Allan Sekula imagined and set out to realise an artwork

The Beast and the Sovereign MER Paper Kunsthalle Mein uses the camera asThe Beast and the Sovereign was Jacques Derridas last seminar. It lent its name to the exhibition and accompanying catalogue at the Wrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and MACBA, Barcelona (2015). It examines constructs of political sovereignty in the Western intellectual tradition. For Derrida the beast and the sovereign symbolised two opposing figures of the political that are both located outside the law: the beast, who does not know the law,