Katharina Kohl: Paolo
Videoprint
from glanceroom
2001
"Together they started a
work sponsorship
in the years 2000 and 2001 in
the north of Portugal and
also took part
in the international art
symposium of Feital -
in Portuguese
it would sound even more beautiful,
but not, if I try to say it
- . whilst
Susann Beckers' work centre is nature and
landscape, in kKatharina
Kohls work the
human and especially the human's head is centre of her
interest. Initially
and superficially their spirits part
here, possibly also their
temperaments.
"She (K.K.) pursues the
question how does
it look like when somebody is
who he/she is, that is in
stillstand and
in present .
She lets us onlookers look
into time,
into the eyes of the model
through neverending loops,
to allow us
long looks onto their and by
that onto our own present.
By leading
us into this dull time span of the
ever-same she opens up for
us a path to
the discovery on how dense
our sensory possibilities
actually are.
"
"Some years ago Susann
Becker dedicated
herself in her photographic work to water and sand.
Now it is the stones
she contemplates. We see here the stones of
Feital.
They are presented in black
and white
with long exposure time and by that long depth of
focus. In narrow elongated
high format she shows us each a larger stone, centred
in the upper part
of the picture. In front of that a long stretch of
rough , somewhat dry
vegetation or a more flat stone surface covered with
liches. The stone
is weathered, has cracks, strangely bizarre, daring
the beauty ideals of
proportions and statics . Its age seems to have been
lifted out of time
and having been raised by that. Slowly one gets
closer, stays for a long
time, still and thoughtfull exchange of energy is
taking place.
This slowliness is
reflected in the photographie.
"I have gone into this
stone age' Susann Becker
calls it
and this double meaning of the phrase is
strangely true. "
Text of:
© Dr. Iris
Simone Engelke
Hamburg
| march 2002
'stations
of the maturing
look - photographs of Susann Becker and video
portraits by Kataharina Kohl
', at the occasion of 2.triennale of
photographie, EINSTELLUNGSRAUM
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