Artist Feature

Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.

The camera records an ordeal on a body. Thus it is imperative issued, yet concealed by the thin caramel coat. The body becomes a place of violence and pain. Thereby it touches the skin of the caramel and consequently increases the contact with its protective shell. Just so, the red caramel marks a wound through the representation of a transparent and sensitive surface. While the shape of the hot liquid caramel can be changed, it is transferred into a state of fragility while cooling. My pictures describe experimental setups. By the camera a situation as under a microscope is recorded. The previous work with the caramel, that is, the molding of the body, its transfer into a mold and the casting of the caramel itself resembles the manufacture of a preparation. The caramel will cover the circumstance of an experimental setup, in which materiality and properties of the caramel are prefixed. The photographic negative occurs as a result, and hence as evidence. Ultimately, the exposure of the photographic paper through the negative is the interpretation of the test result. It represents the function of paper emulsions, temperatures and composition of the chemicals, to name just a few. The evaluation is beyond an exclusive conclusion. The variability of the caramel, the unpredictability of the human body and the liability to fluctuations of the photographic process sets the conditions under which the study is prepared, carried out and evaluated. Relations between body, caramel and process alternate constantly, taking continuous demand for new treatment and locate themselves yet: as the picture.