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La Sente

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:19:46 +0000

Since 2018, Guillaume Greff has been tracking wolves and lynxes near his home in the Vosges mountains. Now a photobook about his work has been released. What the photographs in La Sente reveal is not so much the animal itself, but rather its mystery; a reserved, lurking, almost ghostly presence – an unsettling strangeness that haunts the landscape without ever fully surrendering to it. In this monograph, the images enter into dialogue with a series of accounts of tracking: fragments of the terrain, splinters of memory, suspended moments in which one can sense rather than see the fragile fabric of life.

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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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Ondes

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:28:19 +0000

Ondes documents the flows of energy that shape our lives and overwhelm our powers of perception. The series addresses the link between our origin and our ultimate destination. The same link that unites us to distant times, to the first forms of life and to the cosmos, in a sense of interconnection and interdependence. Ondes by Bénédicte Blondeau presents a vision of reality that does not forget that it also refers to what we cannot see. It’s an exploration of the elements based on the principle that everything is in perpetual transformation, whether we are capable of perceiving it or not.

The project Ondes by Bénédicte Blondeau was supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, República Portuguesa DGArtes, Espace Contretype, Mulhouse Photo Bienniale.

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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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shelter

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:17:48 +0000

shelter, a short English word with multiple ramifications. It evokes the hermit, the poet, the refugee, the homeless person, the destitute, the domestic or wild animal passing by, the wanderer as much as the metaphor, the urgency, the necessity: to inhabit / to think – to join and meet / to share – to transport? to move? to hide? to
(re)settle? … to play?
Through images and text, shelter explores and declines fundamental questions – rhizomes and rebounds -: what are we building? for whom? why? who do we protect? from what? how? what is a shelter? a ladder? A scale? – a shell? a value? a temporality? – who lives where? how? why? with whom? what does this shelter, do these ladders, and scales, mean to you, us, them? To me? Could Memory (or love?) be the ultimate shelter(s)?

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Ce qu’il reste

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:06:41 +0000

Planet earth at night. Seeing the world from above. Everywhere mankind has transformed the landscape, illustrated by the lights of the cities shining in the dark.
Planet earth seen from its depths. A wild and spontaneous swinging. Instinctive. Organic.
Ce qu’il reste is not about rupture. It’s a change of perspective, a movement of come and go from one side to the other, reminding that the environment shaped and controlled by mankind is also fragile and ephemeral. Some things die, others appear. Transform. Regenerate.
Ce qu’il reste is an invitation to travel – in space, but also in time. A journey through images created with a camera. Photography itself is often considered as the medium of the ephemeral. It shows us a moment that undeniably belongs to the past, reveals our passages in a constantly changing reality, like a scar recalling our memories: a metaphor of the fragility of human existence. But it is that same medium which eventually leads the spectator to a change of perspective, showing what remains when the same spaces are left by those who once inhabited them, with their individual stories and collective memories. Far from the turmoil of men, in the silent depths of the earth, an imperturbable and majestic movement continues its slow trajectory undertaken hundreds of millions of years ago. And maybe for eternity.

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Musa x paradisiaca L.

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:29:01 +0000

Musa x Paradisiaca L.* by Martina Pozzan is an ongoing work on biological diversity seen from an institutional perspective. A silent journey between dormant buds, a view of reassembling the natural at the genetic biodiversity limit. The visual journey crosses seamlessly different collections analyzed: seed banks, in-vitro conservation, cryopreservation and living collections.
*Musa x paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The ‘x’ taxonomic classification indicates a hybrid of a species if placed before the species. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. ‘L.’ indicates the abbreviation of Linnaeus / Carl von Linné, the Swedish naturalist.

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Sediment

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:56:30 +0000

Stranded Places and other Landscapes

The meaning of a landscape is multi-layered and not predominantly a (natural) phenomenon with a determined dimension and circumference. A landscape can also occur completely concealed in the crevice of a rock or in a tranquil corner of a room, and can expand beyond the visual, to become, perhaps, an audible landscape. I conceive landscapes as spaces, objects and bodies, as sounds and smells, thoughts and (sensory) perceptions. I attempt to translate my experiences of landscapes into my artistic work, which, ideally, cater for a renewed participation in the experiences, both my own and those of others. — Uta Neumann

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Magnolia

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:26:10 +0000

Magnolia is the result of a collaboration between Iphygenia Dubois and Lore Horré in 2014. The edition contains two publications: Motionless by Iphygenia Dubois and The Hills Were Green and So Were We by Lore Horré, both assembled in a slipcase.

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Huit Degrés Ressentis

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:16:45 +0000

In Huit Degrés Ressentis Jezabel Baudo is faced with fragments of her past and searches for her own origins and the balance between familiarity and strangeness. Jezabels photographs, texts and objects attempt to preserve transience and reflect a narrative about remembrance, searching, finding, not finding and letting things go.

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