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opus incertum

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:29:14 +0000

In opus incertum – a term borrowed from Roman masonry, which consists of building walls from small blocks, broken tiles and a variety of bricks – Daniel Wagener questions the memory of time and place, and the social and functional transformations experienced by urban buildings.
opus incertum portrays a new reality, seeks to document episodes of urban construction, uncovers what lies behind the ostentation, reveals what is no longer seen.
opus incertum is also a tribute to the collective work and commitment of those who form society during the construction process, who ensure the transmission of methods and culture, and practice oral exchange in an exemplary show of solidarity, while remaining invisible.

Published on the occasion of the Luxembourg Photography Award 2023.

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SOMEHOW, NOTHING APPEARS TO BE HAPPENING, OVDJE OR RATHER, WENT A HOLE, CRNA RUPA

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:29:37 +0000

One reoccurring theme in Vutuc’s work is the transmission of information, complete with its natural selection, alteration and deformation throughout time. Here, captured images – fragmented, curated cuts of reality – are presented to be not just explored, but challenged in their fidelity as the question of their physical density gets rivaled by the comparable weight of copies; Vutuc pairs up the seemingly static format of photocopiers, celluloid and Super 8 film and, then, projection techniques – playing with layers of surfaces and transparencies as varying vibrations also audibly resonate, life fuses with machinery through celluloid and confusion, then doubt are introduced by a duality of projectors competing for validity in their respective outputs. — Aymeric Nocus

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Seeing Into Stone

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:51:02 +0000

Seeing into Stone by Anika Schwarzlose describes a technique applied by experienced stone carvers, when they work on sculptural objects: before they start cutting into a stone they contemplate its surface to anticipate the structure and natural growth beneath it. This ritual of looking into opaque matter describes a spiritual practice.
At the same time it functions as a metaphor for a special kind of tunnel vision, focused on what lies invisible under a surface. This book is a time travel through past and present, above and below ground. Landscapes, impacted and even created by resource extraction are put into context with contemporary industrial mining equipment and historical cast iron utilitarian goods.
Through the combination of images from very different archives, connections are made that speak about the complex relationships of humans and minerals. Images and texts contribute to a debate on mineral and human coevolution, that redefines the separation between life and non-life.

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Hotel Bellevue

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:51:11 +0000

Hotel Bellevue by Dries Segers is a beautiful, small photo book and a vocabulary centered around border trees, Celtic historical facts and visual speculation. This book is a manifesto for love, anger, the non-human, a wish to connect, to suggest, and to study. Only things from the heart deliver.
Mark trees are trees that are planted at strategic locations in the landscape. They make visible certain transitions of national, community and property borders. Multiple administrations monitor the conservation of these trees. Governments are obliged by law to maintain, replant and protect them. In a changing geopolitical landscape, however, these trees often lose their function as cultural-historical bearers and merge into their environment as non-information.
Trees have been present on this planet for 370,000,000 years. They have fallen into invisibility because they are losing their function in the landscape to a new, fuller panorama of symbols and signs. Road-building, agriculture and urbanisation have a lot to do with this, but so do technological and industrial progress. Centuries ago, some trees functioned as visual elements in a landscape in order to orient ourselves.

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Saly

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:32:58 +0000

Saly explores the journey of a salamander, wandering around in the small village of St Piereville, France. It’s movements create a choreography, captured by the camera, presented in the book. This publication is handmade by the author. Printed on a risograph at So-Ri printing studio in Antwerp, in an edition of 68 copies.

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Residual Stacks

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:22:30 +0000

The dynamic ordering and the daily reshuffling of materials are references that lead to disruptions for users and enable casual encounters. Residual Stacks is a document of work Kate Morrell undertook on-site over five days and nights, using materials extracted from the drawers of the Sitterwerk Foundation’s Werkstoffarchiv. A series of constructed images produced over one quiet week in early summer, when left uninterrupted to handle materials and accumulate books and materials with a single workspace.

The ‚stacks‘ integrate objects from the many sections of the archive (metals, minerals, textiles, ceramics, paper etc.), disrupting any established hierarchies of materials. The accession numbers and element listings supplied, are as recorded in the Sitterwerk Catalogue.

This series of images and this publication are made in conversation with a library sub-section of exhibition catalogues, mainly Swiss-designed; these slim catalogues were published c1960s-70s, illustrated with black and white images documenting European post-war sculpture, contemporary minimalism, modernist sculpture and monumental words in marble, steel and bronze.

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Index: A Land. Fragments from the Jacquetta Hawkes Archive

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:37:11 +0000

This publication is a reproduction of a handwritten and annotated index for A Land, a non-fiction book by archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes, first published in 1951.

Produced from archival material held in The Jacquetta Hawkes Archive, Special Collections at University of Bradford. The original index was written and compiled by Jacquetta and Nicolas Hawkes.

Index: A Land is reprinted with the kind permission of Special Collections, University of Bradford and Nicolas Hawkes.

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Errors And Residuals – set

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:18:09 +0000

Errors and Residuals is an ongoing series of small artist publications by Sarah Van Marcke in which she explores the archive of Ignace D.K., a man she never knew in life. Ignace died in 2013, a few months before her parents would move into the house in the woods that was his home. In this house Van Marcke discovered Ignace’s universe, perfectly organized, ordered and orchestrated. Everything that was left behind was left for a reason; he made sure that, even after his death, everything would remain as he felt it should be. Van Marcke uses the archive as a means of talking about our urge to exercise control and the strategies we develop to try and protect ourselves from the contingent nature of existence.

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Errors And Residuals – a nest

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:55:06 +0000

Errors and residuals is an ongoing series of small artist publications by Sarah Van Marcke in which she explores the archive of Ignace D.K., a man she never knew in life. Ignace died in 2013, a few months before her parents would move into the house in the woods that was his home. In this house Van Marcke discovered Ignace’s universe, perfectly organized, ordered and orchestrated. Everything that was left behind was left for a reason; he made sure that, even after his death, everything would remain as he felt it should be. Van Marcke uses the archive as a means of talking about our urge to exercise control and the strategies we develop to try and protect ourselves from the contingent nature of existence.

In the part titled a nest, Van Marcke focuses on the square architectural form of birdhouses as a metaphor for the control man likes to impose on nature. Birds are invited into a seemingly perfect environment, where issues such as comfort, safety, protection and weather-ability are largely taken care of and a framework is provided for the creation of perfectly square nests. With a combination of scientific precision and seemingly ritual gestures, Van Marcke dissects every nest found in Ignace’s birdhouses.

With the support of the Research-unit Intermedia, Luca school of Arts, Brussels and CCHA Hasselt.

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Errors And Residuals – a plot

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:43:40 +0000

The part titled a plot deals with the phenomenon of superstition, the instinctive tendency to find patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise. An impulse deemed erroneous by the rational, empirical mind, which prefers scientific rationalization over the anecdotal.

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