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Echos from the Dephts (A true fiction)

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:28:28 +0000

None of it is true, he said. I fabricated every word of it!

On April 22, 1970, the centenary of Lenin’s birth, the foundation stone was laid in the Kola Peninsula, on the edges of the USSR, where the deepest hole in the world was going to be drilled. If the scientific discoveries are commensurate with the feat, the site of the Kola Superdeep Borehole will also give rise to an urban legend that will first spread in American evangelical circles in the early 90s, to today spread throughout the virtual world of conspirators. Documenting both the original scientific approach and the legend of Well to Hell, mixed in full page and thumbnail format, the images are all from the web. The poor quality of the compressed images translate the scrambling of the facts, the dilution of the truth in the fiction, just like the choir of texts stating so many snatches of alternative facts.

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Enkel

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 25 May 2021 11:48:19 +0000

Following Katrin Kamrau’s exhibition 18 x 24 cm (Tique Art Space, Antwerp), Enkel gathers a series of images discovered by the artist in the Lieven Gevaert archive in Mortsel (Belgium). This book reproduces these worksheets — photographs and dimension specifications for their reproduction — used in the context of a traveling exhibition; entitled Vastberaden Vrouwen [Resolute women], celebrating the centenary of the International Council of Women. This event was organised in 1988 by a collective gathered around Denise de Weerdt, Belgian historian and gender studies pioneer. Katrin Kamrau reproduces this proof sheet, heretofore preserved in the archives, in the form of a spiral-bound notebook oscillating between photographic and archival practice in which the document is composed of the photographic miniatures as well as their surrounding indications. While highlighting the material dimension of her support, Katrin Kamrau draws attention to the incomplete remnants of a herstory of feminism. — Marie Lécrivain

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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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