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OCEAN VIEW 2: Verschiebung des Blickfeldes, 2015 – 2024

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:32:26 +0000

“Great Albatross, I found you dead by the sea among the rocks. The image of your miserable demise has haunted me.” (2024)
How has our perception, our view of the sea, changed due to our awareness of its endangerment and exploitation? Does the memory of the magic of cosmic energies and forces remain? The starting point for this work are analog photographs of a sea surface, taken in 2015; preserved as small prints on paper in the archive. Retrieved again in 2024 and photographed. Overlays have emerged, both temporally and visually. No further documentation of plastic and garbage, not a dead bird. No boats can be seen, no longlines, no oil slick…

*) The Snowy albatross is one of the largest birds in the world, with a wingspan of up to 3.50 meters. Some species are threatened or critically endangered. According to bird conservationist Barry Weeber, several hundred thousand albatrosses die every year worldwide as victims of longline fishing and plastic debris in the sea.

OCEAN VIEW 2 consists of several parts: a folded inkjet print (cover), a bound booklet (picture section), a set of A5 cards (illustrations and text) and a 20×30 cm pigment print (2015/2024).

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CUT #1

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:38:30 +0000

By using transparent paper the work Cut#1 expands the principle of montage to a further level: Each of the composite and printed image leaves its trace on the following page like a translucent shadow. Each side view is part of another view, each montage becomes part of another image constellation, which is composed from fragments and the integration of the sheets’ blank parts. Viewing and no longer seeing, realizing and no longer recognizing create an open field for perception. — Heidemarie von Wedel

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Echo ohne Ortsangabe

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:02:14 +0000

At the outset for Echo ohne Ortsangabe were small black-and-white analogue prints from my archive. In the course of their artistic re-actualization the prints were re-photographed and retouched only to the degree that would allow the report of their original quality in a publication. However, some of the reproductions show more than the perfect replay of the archive photo but also parts of the carrier on which the image was placed for the purpose of reproduction.
Within the sequence that was defined for Echo ohne Ortsangabe the single pictures not only refer to each other through formal similarities. The report of the pictures in the sequence also change between the display of image as image and image as archival document, which somewhat creates an echo from an otherwise unidentifiable origin. Altogether the images occur as if distant and floating within a silent, vague space that was made to subject the images to a second glance. Past is always re-negotiable. — Heidemarie von Wedel

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