"Umschlag" - Stefan Fischer / Kerstin Flake
26 Nov - 17 Dec 2005
The word Umschlag is to take literally: from light to shadow, from one stage to the other and from visual perception to mind games.
Light plays a crucial but unfamiliar role in Stefan Fischer’s pictures – back light sometimes mild, sometimes rich in contrast blinds the beholder. It forms the narrative strategy of the work Urlaub von zu Hause. It tells the story of what lies in secrecy of the picture’s deep shadows, yet still disposing of fine structures and differences. By their warm tones the familiar, casual scenes and the unspecific places that could be taken from random urban spaces escape their commonness and insignificance. They are enabled to do so, because they are charged by a notion that one ascribes generally to alien places: holiday.
Point and field of view determine the sensation in Kerstin Flake’s series Golden Room. Space limited by the perspective of a worm’s eye view and the indication of another person suffice as clue to a story, whose beginning and end stay in secrecy. Only imagination brings back to life the momentary scene that is frozen in time by means of photography. In this work Kerstin Flake conflates the different strategies of film, theater and photography in order to dismantle the construct of narration and the real.
The opening will be on Saturday, 11/26/2005 from 6 p.m on and we cordially invite you and your friends to join us.
Light plays a crucial but unfamiliar role in Stefan Fischer’s pictures – back light sometimes mild, sometimes rich in contrast blinds the beholder. It forms the narrative strategy of the work Urlaub von zu Hause. It tells the story of what lies in secrecy of the picture’s deep shadows, yet still disposing of fine structures and differences. By their warm tones the familiar, casual scenes and the unspecific places that could be taken from random urban spaces escape their commonness and insignificance. They are enabled to do so, because they are charged by a notion that one ascribes generally to alien places: holiday.
Point and field of view determine the sensation in Kerstin Flake’s series Golden Room. Space limited by the perspective of a worm’s eye view and the indication of another person suffice as clue to a story, whose beginning and end stay in secrecy. Only imagination brings back to life the momentary scene that is frozen in time by means of photography. In this work Kerstin Flake conflates the different strategies of film, theater and photography in order to dismantle the construct of narration and the real.
The opening will be on Saturday, 11/26/2005 from 6 p.m on and we cordially invite you and your friends to join us.