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Stehen Liegen Hängen

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:32:52 +0000

In her artist book Stehen Liegen Hängen, Dörte Eißfeldt takes us into her studio – the central location of her artistic work. The artist shares with us her personal view of her practice, of combinations and situations in this place of work.
In the mid-1970s, Dörte Eißfeldt, who comes from painting and film, increasingly turned to photography. For the artist, engaging with this visual medium implies working with fragments of reality. Her montages, multiple exposures, and experimental series are a continuous encounter of the visual potential of photography and at the same time gesture the photographic process of their genesis.

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The Perfect Crime: Concerning The Murder Of Reality

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:42:42 +0000

Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.

The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.

In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order. (https://kultbooks.com/)

German Photobook Award Bronze Winner (Dummy) 2023

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Schneeball

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:01:56 +0000

The photographs of Dörte Eißfeldt show materials or bodies, how we touch them and how they approach each other. Starting with one single, basic photo of a snowball in the palm of a hand, we are taken, through the multitude of prints, the different and contesting variations of light and dimensions of the image, from a cosmic spectacle — a sphere tumbling in a dark space — to a more intimate and erotic experience. Through the title, in the form of a play on words — Schnee-b-all, Snowball or Universe – evokes an almost cosmic poem … — Monique David-Ménard

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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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SPEKTRUM*

Katrin Kamrau — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:52:34 +0000

SPEKTRUM * is both, an artist publication and a catalog. SPEKTRUM * uses an open, participatory structure to embrace a triangle relationship between the publication itself, the reader, and the producer. Through reproductions of artworks, interviews, (exhibition-)texts, and exhibition views, the reader can delve into SPEKTRUM* — the artist’s field of interest — to collectively… Continue reading SPEKTRUM*

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