A performer who moves for the photographer. A performance developed for the camera. 
Two analogies - being seen and seeing - in a wordless dialogue between movement and observation. 

The basis of this work is the intimate examination of the relationship between body and space as well as the observation of movements and physical forms of expression. The impulses of the depicted dancer / performer are continued through photography, are deformed and thus open up an area that uses the body as a projection surface and allows individual identity constructions. How we represent our own body and perceive the other and how we react to it in different rooms is closely connected to our own reality, our individual gestures and everyday performances which are examined with these six photo objects based on the body of the performer. Building on the two-dimensionality of classic photography, the performative becomes a plastic, almost abstract figure and is translated into space. The various movements are continued, shaped by hand and then fixed using a textile hardener. Restructuring is created by actively working with textiles as soft, intimate and malleable image carriers. On the one hand from the given smooth photographic structure to a sculptural object, on the other hand from the soft material to a solid body that breaks the usual processes of perception and tries to transform the viewer's gaze.

Performer: Verena Schneider
C-Prints on cotton 
Wood, Acrylicglass
150x100cm
6 unique artworks


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