SHALLOW GROUND (UNTIEFEN)




Text: Ines Rüttinger: Schichten – Layers, 2021

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Proceeding from instant photographs, their sculptural treatment and large format transfer into space, Elburn explores not only the material of the motif, but makes the material itself an issue. She dismantles the instant photograph and expose the chemical layers: “(…) due to “improper” handling, the dismantling and the uncovering of layers the intended idea of the imagining instant image is ignored and the motif sometimes indistinct or even abstract.” 
        Proceeding from the publication Newtons ghost and Goethes Polaroid: About nature (by Mathias Bröckers, 2019) and Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future (2012) she likes to deepen the (serial) exploration of the medium polaroid/instant photographs and their (analog) transformation into space.

The work imagining landscape (untiefe/*shallow), 2021—again leaves the surface, reduces the polaroid motif to light and opaque areas. Through overhead-projector Elburn projects an imaginative landscape onto the architectural walls, whereby the light/projection leaves traces on large format photo paper.
        By the many transformations—but without leaving the analog medium—photography conquers the (real) space. Whereby the question appears: What is left of the original image? What is imagined? The exploration of and experimentation with the medium, its limits and scopes always leaves the question of the motif.
       … and then it leaves the studio!

Text: Ines Rüttinger: Schichten – Layers, 2021