Wiesbaden Intervention 05

digital print on birch trees
approx. 20 x 15 cm (8 interventions)
2017

From the series: Wiesbaden Intervention

The rapidly advancing process of digitalization is increasingly blurring the boundary between analog and digital realms of experience. Visual forms of expression and content from social media shape our everyday life and perception as omnipresent digital sensory impressions. The series "Wiesbaden Intervention" critically engages with the medium of photography and raises questions about originality and representation. In Wiesbaden, birch trees are photographed, and the resulting photographs are attached to the trunks of the birch trees. Three presences of the tree converge: the birch as a photographic motif, the paper made from birch pulp, and the birch trees to which the photographs are affixed. The combination of physical materiality and digital representation opens up new forms of presentation. The fragmentary nature of photography becomes visible through site-specific interventions, as it manages to capture a fragment of reality and digitally reproduce it.

Other works from this series