CHANGES IN PERCEPTION
Reduction – Condensation – Superimposition – Concentration
How does perception change when many individual pieces of information become visible at the same time? And what happens when individual, often overlooked details are taken out of context and stand on their own?
Some things command so much attention that everything else fades into the background. Sometimes it is the multitude of impressions that shapes our view. Losing oneself in the details and grasping the whole give rise to different photographic approaches: subjects are isolated, repeated, reduced, or condensed into a new image through the superimposition of many photographs.
Particularly interesting here is the relationship between space and time. Multiple shots of a subject, different states of a place, movement, and long exposures bring individual moments together. Hundreds of photographs can merge into a single image or tableau. In this way, not only is space condensed, but time is also compressed.
Photography thus becomes a means of shifting perception: the “small” gains significance, the “many” become a whole, and a new context emerges from the familiar view.
