In Adrian Sauer’s series Modell, the relationship to reality is enigmatic, although the materials are identifiable and the pictures have a recognizable composition.

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For Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs all photographs are constructs. For them the choice of detail, the framing, and the intention of the author already cause images to lose their neutrality.

As regards the material, your work is characterized by an experimental and reflective engagement with the medium. How do the method of working and the subject influence each other?

The titles of your groups of works and publications such as Leaving White Spaces, Never Really There, Leaving Again, or a way point to a vanishing from the image. What do you aim to achieve with this abandonment of the image space?

Jens Klein views archives as flexible constellations, rather than as static entities. For his works, he meanders through the visual worlds of the past. The codifications and epistemological nexuses of archives serve as both starting point and goal of his artistic activity.

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In the pictures, the words lose their strength. The text literally becomes a typeface that is unstable and ambiguous but not vague.

The chemical-analogue or digital basis of the medium enables a range of output formats. Prints can now be made on virtually any material; and when projected, photographs are incorporeal. This flexibility of media makes photographs open to other forms of visual expression and new spatial systems.

It reveals a great deal about us, perhaps even more than about the person portrayed: when the image of this person triggers empathy, indifference, or rejection, portraits become “mirror images or counter-images of ourselves”.

Your installation will be activated and reactivated during the exhibition. What will happen and how will the perception of your work change?

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“the illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read and write but those who are ignorant of the camera” – László Moholy Nagy’s much-quoted plea of 1928, calling on us to learn to read and to use photographs just as we do letters, words, and sentences, seems to have acted as an unspoken leitmotif for Schäfer.

What is the difference between making photos with a computer and taking them on location?

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Johanna Diehl makes use of signifying codes such as these in contrasting historical and contemporary finds. Through details and conscious omissions, she generates a vacuum that draws the viewer into her photographs.

However, to describe photography as merely a visual research aid does not do justice to the medium. Photography’s role in science is as multifaceted as science’s influence on photography.

Sci-Fi or science? Markus Krottendorfer’s slideshows with infrared film make it difficult to distinguish between the two.

He washes out the silver in the analogue prints using the latest techniques of chemical processing and replaces it, in the case of his desert pictures, with color particles from grains of sand he has brought with him.

Looking at these photographs, we can almost hear the quiet rattle of the pellets or the whine of the missiles.

It is exciting when a jellyfish floats across the screen or a fox pads into view – otherwise there is not much happening unless you’re in the know.

Once the images are fixed, they continue to oxidize slowly – at a speed that depends entirely on the ambient light – and so they address another one of the fundamental aspects of photography: light itself.

His works bring these calibrations to the forefront – a digitially rendered optical wedge pays homage to the tint-dyed gelatine photometers of the 19th century.

Sauer deconstructs the perfection of digital photography with posters bearing black and white squares measuring 1.5 x1.5 mm.

The lyricism she conjures is the result of a precisely calculated experiment: a white haze of photographed smoke powder wafts through her images.

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To exaggerate a bit, one could view such a measurement of rooms as meticulous documentation. How much subjective perception is involved in the installations?