Regine Müller-Waldeck / Frank Berger
06 - 27 Aug 2005
The works of Regine Müller-Waldeck discuss the tight network of delicate violence, gracile form and glossy surface. It is in particular the ostensibly ‘innocent’ objects or cast bodies that uncover the uncanny, which Freud ascribed to severed body parts.
The uncanny of the installation Die Haengung does not only emerge in the collage-like arrangement of five female legs and lower parts of the body that are cast true to the original and distributed throughout the gallery space. Its specific irritation rather becomes tangible in the enacted lightness of the displayed models. Thoughts of violence are the result and a distinct fear is creeping into one’s mind that induces a permanent positioning and questioning of the self.
Frank Berger’s Oxford Street is comprised of a sequence of sixty highly detailed photographs (slides, 6 x 7 cm) projected in a large format, filling the wall. Shot only from one angle the camera puts repeatedly on view a single, relatively short stretch of London’s famous shopping mile. People seem to haste through the picture, apparently in no relation. Only after some time one starts to distinguish a ‘living billboard’ to be the continuous centre of the individual images. Sometimes unnoticed, sometimes communicating and sometimes insecurely she passes her time at Oxford Street. Thus, something paradoxical becomes visible behind the strict sequence of pictures: on the one hand, the construction by the photographer that portrays the relentless return of the same shot not as a deepened understanding of reality but as a condensed representation of it; and yet, on the other hand, there is the photographer’s strong determination to provide us insights into this reality.
The gallery is open from Tue - Sat 11-18 h.
The uncanny of the installation Die Haengung does not only emerge in the collage-like arrangement of five female legs and lower parts of the body that are cast true to the original and distributed throughout the gallery space. Its specific irritation rather becomes tangible in the enacted lightness of the displayed models. Thoughts of violence are the result and a distinct fear is creeping into one’s mind that induces a permanent positioning and questioning of the self.
Frank Berger’s Oxford Street is comprised of a sequence of sixty highly detailed photographs (slides, 6 x 7 cm) projected in a large format, filling the wall. Shot only from one angle the camera puts repeatedly on view a single, relatively short stretch of London’s famous shopping mile. People seem to haste through the picture, apparently in no relation. Only after some time one starts to distinguish a ‘living billboard’ to be the continuous centre of the individual images. Sometimes unnoticed, sometimes communicating and sometimes insecurely she passes her time at Oxford Street. Thus, something paradoxical becomes visible behind the strict sequence of pictures: on the one hand, the construction by the photographer that portrays the relentless return of the same shot not as a deepened understanding of reality but as a condensed representation of it; and yet, on the other hand, there is the photographer’s strong determination to provide us insights into this reality.
The gallery is open from Tue - Sat 11-18 h.