EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e. V. Susan Paufler: geteilt - zerteilt

do not directly represent a person but shadows of a face which is reflected onto the just having passed through landscape by the window panes. It concerns a snap shot, with it being only on a photo is no replacement for a location-identification of a person whose name and identity we do not know. What can be described is merely the quality of the reflection on the glass. The pictured person appears on it dimly basically confirming precisely the characteristics of photography to let light self-actingly form images which do not exclude chance. (Staging on the other hand is a process in the photo studio which tries to eliminate these qualities of the camera by auxiliary means like make-up, light, scenery and more).

Without doubting their art quality, which indeed unfolds from the concept and the corresponding presentation: even though Paufler's photos are con- structed as exploration over a long period of time - the individual photos are snap shots which uncover the nature of photography under today's circum- stances. This corresponds with the loss of reality by speed (P.Virillio). Where reality is analyzed and processed in sharpness art is at work as a superior deployment which flanks the possibilities of photography in a criti- cal and analytical atmosphere and explores its potential.

do not directly represent a person but shadows of a face which is reflected onto the just having passed through landscape by the window panes. It concerns a snap shot, with it being only on a photo is no replacement for a location-identification of a person whose name and identity we do not know. What can be described is merely the quality of the reflection on the glass. The pictured person appears on it dimly basically confirming precisely the characteristics of photography to let light self-actingly form images which do not exclude chance. (Staging on the other hand is a process in the photo studio which tries to eliminate these qualities of the camera by auxiliary means like make-up, light, scenery and more). Without doubting their art quality, which indeed unfolds from the concept and the corresponding presentation: even though Paufler's photos are con- structed as exploration over a long period of time - the individual photos are snap shots which uncover the nature of photography under today's circum- stances. This corresponds with the loss of reality by speed (P.Virillio). Where reality is analyzed and processed in sharpness art is at work as a superior deployment which flanks the possibilities of photography in a criti- cal and analytical atmosphere and explores its potential.	What stroke me with devotion was the voice of the Danish poet Inger Christensen who died last year. Who heard her voice in front of the two exhibited light boxes in the basement will have noticed her being a great poet. The poem recited by her in German brings into play the time level which is present in the photos only indirectly. It is assembled of things, entities and situations of life which in the Danish original were composed following the alphabet accordingly to the Fibonacci number sequence and no longer follow this linguistic order in her German translation. This does not severe the impact of the poem but it shows that even the alphabetical order only has a relative validity to create relations between things and entities which are so fleeting as a view out of a moving train.
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