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B-Werk Kiefernwald - Limited Edition 1 of 5 (plus 2 artist proofs) Photograph
Germany
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in
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Archival Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta (Glossy), Unframed, Signed Limited Edition Print, Numbered Certificate of Authenticity, Edition limited to 5 (plus 2 artist prints). Westwall - Der Denkmalwert des Unerfreulichen Extensive military defences were dug into the landscape of central Europe in the first half of the 20th century. The cost was enormous: the lives of forced labourers, a huge proportion of economic output expended and scars many 100s of miles long. These defences might have been useful as a propaganda tool. Militarily, they were out-dated before their completion. A useless exercise in the face of the military technology of the day, making the sacrifices even more poignant. What to do with the material evidence of a past, which one would rather forget? In Germany, ‘the value for remembrance of the unpleasant’ is still being grappled with in discourse and in everyday life. Some traces are removed, when they are in the way of the present. Some traces are being covered up to stop people entering dangerous structures. Other parts are protected and documented within their historical context to prevent the installations being misused for political purposes. Large stretches of it are simply being reclaimed by nature. This project documents the remaining traces in the landscape of a small section of the Westwall (Siegfried Line), covering bunkers, trenches and tank barriers located in the Bienwald, near Schaidt in south-western Germany. This section was used as a staging post for the German attacks against France in 1940. It saw fighting again in late 1944 and until March 1945, when it delayed but did not stop the advances of the US and French armies. I am capturing the ambiguity with which society sees these traces by shrouding them in the picturesque. Enhancing the reality of the natural surroundings and presenting the work with extensive detail makes the captured evidence recede into the background even more, while at the same time documenting and publicising its existence.
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Photography:Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:3
Size:15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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I make photographs. My subject is the cultural context of landscape and architecture. I am particularly interested in the traces we humans leave in our environment. Those are created indirectly through our global influence and at the same time directly through the local design of our surroundings. Although there are rarely any people in my photographs, they are always part of what is depicted as invisible agents. My works are created as project series on a specific theme. My thematic focus develops in the examination of a place, whether it is a landscape, an urban area or a building. For the project work I use an ethnographic approach focused on observation. Photographs are created in the repeated photographic examination of the physical place, whereby I draw on a view trained by my studies of architecture. With the parallel research of the background of the observed landscape I can give my projects the necessary context in accompanying texts. The outcome is a series of reflective images that approach a certain aspect of a place. I work out the photographs in my studio and often superimpose several digital files in one photograph to maintain better control over the quality of the presentation. Making my own pigment prints is an important part of my practice and up to a certain size I produce my works in signed editions myself.
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