Size Matters, Vienna, 05.12. – 13.12.2019

Anna Hofbauer, Stefanie Seibold

“There is an irony in our use of terminology here. In 1839, Talbot was very careful to refer to his various methods as ‘fixing’ – they operated very much like the fixative one puts on chalk drawings – the underlying image is still vulnerable but the artist has done something to protect it. Today we refer to these methods as stabilisation, for they impart a degree of durability to the photographic image, however leaving behind a complex residue of chemistry. Herschel on the other hand very descriptively called his use of hypo a ‘washing-out’ method.  The hypo permitted the remaining silver salts to be removed completely. But soon this careful distinction was turned on its head, and Herschel’s approach came to define the meaning of a fixer.”

(excerpt from To fix or not to fix? – Sir John Herschel’s question, posted on 22nd January 2016 by Larry J. Schaaf, https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2016/01/22/to-fix-or-not-to-fix-sir-john-herschels-question/)

Size Matters, Vienna, 05.12. – 13.12.2019

Anna Hofbauer, Stefanie Seibold

“There is an irony in our use of terminology here. In 1839, Talbot was very careful to refer to his various methods as ‘fixing’ – they operated very much like the fixative one puts on chalk drawings – the underlying image is still vulnerable but the artist has done something to protect it. Today we refer to these methods as stabilisation, for they impart a degree of durability to the photographic image, however leaving behind a complex residue of chemistry. Herschel on the other hand very descriptively called his use of hypo a ‘washing-out’ method.  The hypo permitted the remaining silver salts to be removed completely. But soon this careful distinction was turned on its head, and Herschel’s approach came to define the meaning of a fixer.”

(excerpt from To fix or not to fix? – Sir John Herschel’s question, posted on 22nd January 2016 by Larry J. Schaaf, https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2016/01/22/to-fix-or-not-to-fix-sir-john-herschels-question/)

v.esch, Kaltenleutgeben, 30.03. – 20.04.2019

Johann Groebner, Gerhard Himmer, Anna Hofbauer

v.esch, Kaltenleutgeben, 30.03. – 20.04.2019

Johann Groebner, Gerhard Himmer, Anna Hofbauer

out of sight, Antwerp, 02.02. – 14.04.2019

Awoiska van der Molen, Anna Hofbauer, Ibro Hasanović

Press Release by Dušica Dražić

Try to freeze this image in your mind: two men standing in a landscape. Now sink below the ground. See the sediments of the past. Add layers of culture and all the different interpretations of history and believes. This image is the starting point for the series of exhibitions Two Men Standing.

Two people, thus two images collide – an empty-handed man that walks through the landscape, looking for a place to settle. Then a man of plenty, trying to exclude the other from the land that he claims belongs to him. Law of nature and law of man superimposed.

The exhibition looks for the invisible that suddenly, temporarily surfaces, allowing us to observe where we come from and which commons we have. It looks at traces of radical redefinitions of culture being preserved within the landscape or being attributed to it.

out of sight, Antwerp, 02.02. – 14.04.2019

Awoiska van der Molen, Anna Hofbauer, Ibro Hasanović

Press Release by Dušica Dražić

Try to freeze this image in your mind: two men standing in a landscape. Now sink below the ground. See the sediments of the past. Add layers of culture and all the different interpretations of history and believes. This image is the starting point for the series of exhibitions Two Men Standing.

Two people, thus two images collide – an empty-handed man that walks through the landscape, looking for a place to settle. Then a man of plenty, trying to exclude the other from the land that he claims belongs to him. Law of nature and law of man superimposed.

The exhibition looks for the invisible that suddenly, temporarily surfaces, allowing us to observe where we come from and which commons we have. It looks at traces of radical redefinitions of culture being preserved within the landscape or being attributed to it.