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CHOR — Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 26 May 2021 11:30:36 +0000

CHOR unites photographic works by Florian Glaubitz, which he created in 2018 and 2019 on commission at the University of Münster. Accompanied by a text contributed by Adrian Williams and an interview between Ursula Frohne and the artist, Glaubitz’ large-format close-ups form a sensitive photographic essay about the scientific community on the university campus as a polyphonic organism in motion.

“[Florian Gaubitz’] portrait depicts the institution as an amalgamation of ideas and intentions united geographically, entertained within structures, a concept made up of so many variable parts. … This is the Choir.” — Adrian Williams

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Eternal Error — Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:32:54 +0000

The individual works move consciously at the border of the photographic image. They are lab experiments, developed from moments where the light, the chemical process of development, dominated the depicted. Photography is always an entanglement of visibility and invisibility, visualizationand withdrawal, knowledge and imagination: as often as photographs are seen, they are also testimonies of a past that remains unobservable. Concentrating on the visibility of the image often leaves the process of visualization too short, ignoring the production process in favor of what you see in a photo. The work places these questions at the limits of visibility, at the borders between the intentional and the unintentional. It switches perspectives, manipulate pieces to let the material compete against the sign: the view as a gateway for inevitabilities of all kinds.

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YOUTH – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:41:28 +0000

Y O U T H focusses photographically and linguistically on the structures of the rural life of village teenagers in Germany. The work challenges identification and interconnectedness, team play and group dynamic in local groups, clubs and circles of friends. Which role do youth-culture and fashion, “home” and tradition play in times of an increasing political shift to the right and glorification of life in the country-side? In the book, which is created in line with the exhibition project, the photographs are accompanied by the essay Idealized Images of Rural Life: Between Right-Wing Ideology and the Romanticism of the Everyday by Yasmin El Sayed, as well as an essay and interview with Kathi Seemann about her photographic work.

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FUNGI – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:00:02 +0000

Fungi are the oldest living species on our planet. They build and spread their communities across human borders, continents, laws … They take over land without asking permission. They clean up toxic messes in disturbed landscapes and shake the land back to life to create livable grounds for animals, plants and maybe humans. They have the power to transport energy between weaker and stronger trees, to keep forests alive or to kill them. Their spores are invisible and spread and spread and spread. — Dries Segers

Photographed in Dudenpark, Brussels in autumn 2018.

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one

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:38:53 +0000

ONE is a visual diary evolving around questions like is religion still able to reconnect humans with the world and with themselves
and which universal values are immanent in different religions. It was photographed during the 2008 Durga Puja in Kolkata, India. — OL

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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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Camouflage studies

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:43:11 +0000

Camouflage Studies, 2014/2016
“The camera, it was hoped, would make everything clearer.” (1)

(…)
As a military application, a black and white film emulsion sensitive for infrared light was the key to break many codes. Infrared film is able to point out different absorbtions of thermal radiation, and thus reveal camouflaged installations. More specific camouflage techniques could be exposed by combining high grade black and white films and optic filters. Such colored filters provided huge possibilities for experimentation: isolating different wavelenghts to figure out color through black and white and laying out the pieces of the puzzle. These specialized imaging techniques were aimed to break ‘the most perfect cryptic powers’ and to reveal enemies with the chameleonic impulse. (3)

(1) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.89

(3) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.173

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Beyond Cold War – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:03:43 +0000

Beyond Cold War is based on the examination of confrontation areas of the Cold War in Europe. Border regions on which the NATO states and those of the Warsaw Pact stood face to face to each other.
During the Cold War the observers were always observed, too. The feeling of observing and simultaneously being observed, the assumed harassment through the antagonist, the alertness and awaiting (action and reaction) are the central starting points of my work. For both sides there was the question about the world behind the border, because both were stamped by massive cultural and political differences, laboured by analogous propaganda.

Jürgen Kühner on Beyond Cold War

“[…] Schlotter’s photographs only take effect at second glance. It is only through the context that they change from generic landscape photographs to a socio-political analysis with the conclusion that borders can run anywhere and at any time, that no structures are needed to separate countries and people.”

https://framesandfascination.com/2019/09/02/robert-schlotter-beyond-cold-war/

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DRATER

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:12:53 +0000

For DRATER Willem Vermoere recuperated images from an earlier project (2003 – 2004), which were taken in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Willem Vermoere worked on this publication between 2012 and 2014.

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Im Glas – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:09:47 +0000

This numbered & signed collectors edition of Im Glas No. 1 – 10 of the total printrun of 50, includes a C-print of Slit Backdrop No. One.

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