Rightly of course we are interested in the quality of what is projected and where to. What character does the picture mass still have? These are pictures of a wall, not any wall, but the wall of the exhibition room. Tiles, heater, part of the ceiling, drilling hole, wallcover with holes. As motives by themselves these are insignificant. Thrilling is that the picture of reality covers the reality of the wall. 

A doubling of the same visible part of the room. But unlike in advertising where a message is beaten into us, neither the tautology in an unnecessary doubling of the same. Because it is never perfect! And thus something happens between the picture of it and the real, something starts moving. It is the small shiftings, the small bluntnesses, the changes in detail, the twistings, the pure enlightening or darkening of the reality, which kiss our sensibility awake. That is his contribution for border awareness.

Another kind of border awareness you certainly experienced with yourself right when you came in. Possibly you still are under live wire a little, because you askyourself if you may or not. I am speaking of the game field, which JUDITH HARTMANN has drawn out here on the floor for the EINSTELLUNGSRAUM.
In Hartmanns formula you become mass which is moved when you wonder whether to step onto the art or not, whether you want or not stay within or without the field marks. Also the speed is up to yourself.

On purpose she touches something very deep inside us: our drive to play. Because although often those game fields do not correspond  the real ones, neither in dimension, proportion nor parting, we instinctively understand these 'language'and treat them dynamically or following the rules depending on character and condition. the behaviour of the people who come in contact with the game field is therefore as important for Judith Hartmanns as the 
interference with the room itself. You may know her work for this year's 'Altonale' in the Neue Große Bergstraße. 

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