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33MM (Mary Magdalene), an offshoot of an important ongoing work, was originally meant to be displayed at an exhibition in a church in Hamburg which was cancelled at the last moment due to a photograph of a mother breastfeeding her naked baby. The installation extends over an octagonally- shaped section of scaffolding - a shape which is sacred in itself, and which directly references the apse of the Hamburg church from which hang seven portraits printed on fabric. In Krahn’s photographs the women bare themselves, proudly displaying both their strengths and their wounds. Each woman preserves the experience of a truth, hidden in this case beneath some pixels. Rather than hiding the nudity, pain, identity and truth, these instead become amplified due to the pixels. Having arisen from censure, the pixels become an artistic means of combatting it. They are applied to the outside of the fabric, granting whoever enters the octagonal structure the chance to gain an intimate view of the protagonists.