Ute Behrend (1961) took photographs of young girls growing up to women. These portraits are presented next to attractive photographs of banal matters, such as country landscapes and flowers.

This unpretentious recording of female maturing in the nineties is close to reality. The series Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies show moments of the daily struggle of being young and growing up. Hereby mocking the existing stereotypes. She depicts a series of female clichés such as the fairy-tale princess, the virgin, the free spirit and the tomboy. In her work she appears to investigate how on one hand women are hurt by traditional expectations and generalisations, and how on the other hand clichés protect them from a worse scenario.

The portraits are positioned next to photographs of everyday matters based on formal relations or on the grounds of visual references. The combination provides the described context with space and air and lets the work transcend pure registration.