The power of images has been described and discussed a lot.

With the title “Ideologies”, this year's photography triennial RAY 2021 calls the critical potential of art onto the floor of the present.

Seven curators have put together international photo projects.

“How is the ideological expressed in the past and in the here and now? What is hidden behind ideologies, how do they work and to what extent do they support power, manipulation, abuse, exclusion and exploitation, or do they even practice? ”RAY wants to discuss these questions with current and historical positions and with works by 22 artists Disclose the workings of past and present ideologies.

The National Socialist Underground (NSU) killed nine people in Germany for racist motives between 2000 and 2007.

The photographer Paula Markert has been documenting with her project “A journey through Germany.

The series of murders of the NSU “the people and places associated with the right-wing extremist terror group.

The work will be exhibited at the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Eschborn.

For many, Switzerland is a peaceful place in the heart of Europe.

With his work “How to Secure a Country”, Salvatore Vitale goes in search of the highly militarized side of the state, which is also permeated by a far-reaching security system and thinking.

The work will be shown in the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Eschborn.

Military summer camps in Hungary aim to convey camaraderie and patriotism to children and young people.

They camp, hike, sing together and are trained militarily with replicas of weapons.

Máté Bartha's "Kontakt" series is exhibited at the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Eschborn.

Adrian Sauer deals with individual perception and mental structures.

His exhibition in the DZ Bank art collection in Frankfurt combines digital C-prints, drawn pictures, sculptural formulations and a photographic sound installation.

Akinbode Akinbiyi observes the changing life in urban spaces and deals with everyday activities in places that have overcome systems of oppression or that give space to emerging ideologies.

A work realized especially for RAY can be seen during the Triennale in the Photography Forum Frankfurt.

In her work, Johanna Diehl focuses on places and objects that are the bearers of complex political and social upheavals.

She is interested in the extent to which the original function and what is absent are still present.

“Eurotopians” will be exhibited at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

Using materials such as chicken bones, Qiana Mestrich stages pictures, partly with her family, to question racism and beauty ideologies and thus participates in the political and cultural discussion about white supremacy and black consciousness.

Qiana Mestrich's typological series “Namesake” shows women with the first name Qiana, whose portraits she found online while researching the origin of their names.

Both works will be exhibited at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

The Congolese "sapeurs" (dandies) dress colorfully and luxuriously, mostly in Western European luxury brands, and stroll through the streets of Kinshasa.

Yves Sambu portrays them in cemeteries and creates an artificial image space of being and appearing, far removed from the places where they actually appear.

The exhibition is shown in the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt.

Pictures are always an expression of the respective perspective, thinking and the present.

Ja'Tovia Gary combines recordings that are supposedly unrelated and deals with our ideologically influenced view.

The exhibition at the MMK customs office in Frankfurt is her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe.

The fourth edition of the RAY Triennial will take place at more than 1,000 exhibition venues in the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main region. A festival with lectures and talks is planned from September 1st to 3rd, 2021.