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For this presentation of new works at Drei, I worked with photographs I took between the years 2005-2008. It is so long ago that I barely remember the things depicted and mostly don’t remember taking them.
This distance gives me the impression that they are like the found objects that I usually work with, which I find on the street or in second-hand shops. Things that I like for certain qualities and let them pass through myself. In this case it has a double effect: it passed through myself then and now.
The question arose for me very often while working with these images: what is their relation to the present? For the moment I can only think that the relation to now is in their material presence and ghostliness at the same time. I don’t have a particular fascination with these photographs, neither as something unusual nor interesting, yet I find them very convincing in how they have come to be.
The exhibition space is not ideal – it’s connected to a kitchen, ba…
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For this presentation of new works at Drei, I worked with photographs I took between the years 2005-2008. It is so long ago that I barely remember the things depicted and mostly don’t remember taking them.
This distance gives me the impression that they are like the found objects that I usually work with, which I find on the street or in second-hand shops. Things that I like for certain qualities and let them pass through myself. In this case it has a double effect: it passed through myself then and now.
The question arose for me very often while working with these images: what is their relation to the present? For the moment I can only think that the relation to now is in their material presence and ghostliness at the same time. I don’t have a particular fascination with these photographs, neither as something unusual nor interesting, yet I find them very convincing in how they have come to be.
The exhibition space is not ideal – it’s connected to a kitchen, ba…
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