Room 428 - Hotel Bogota Photograph

lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Karen Stukes photographs leave space for a lot of associations. First of all there is the light. Light allows us to perceive scenarios that take place in the dark. Photographs are light pictures. Light is the essence of photography, its actual medium. But for Stuke light is more than just a medium, it is the subject of photography as well. Then her photos are defined by space. They engage with spaces and are created within them. A third factor that characterises her pictures is the movement. This appears fleetingly, and is not registered in the single decisive moment of a photographic shot, but holistically and with temporal duration.Hours go by while the camera obscura gradually collects and saves the images of darkness. Only towards morning will its intimate view be terminated, as day breaks. What remains are slow, peaceful pictures on the border between closeness and distance, between day and dream. (Gottfried Jäger from the book: The Trilogy of time, or: I dont mind waiting!)