Katrin Freisager, Landscape
Où sommes nous, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2019
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents in partnership with White Frame, Basel and OBORO, Montréal the group show Où sommes-nous. The exhibition explores the themes of the invisible, passages and memory.
Où sommes-nous offers a multitude of approaches exploring fundamental issues associated with framing, narrative, still and moving images.
The practices of these five artists span performance, figurative and abstract imagery, tying the body to landscape. Brought together, their works articulate common preoccupation concerning perception and desire to both, disrupt and expand the popular imaginary by drawing from avant-garde and feminist vernaculars and strategies.
Text and Curators: Chantal Molleur, Aaron Pollard, Sandrine Wymann
Katrin Freisager, Landscape, 2010/19
To create this image, Freisager built a larger-than-life installation comprised of vegetation and artificial light. However the resulting photograph provides few clues concerning the location or scale of the objects found within the frame. This ambigues scene evokes myriad situations and possible places, large and small.
Katrin Freisager, Landscape 1, 2010/19
Impression C-Print / Diasec, Photography sous plexiglas
Exhibitionview Où sommes-nous, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2019
Curators: Chantal Molleur, Aaron Pollard, Sandrine Wymann
Photos: Sébastien Bozon
Katrin Freisager, Liquid Planet, 2018 /Liquid Landscape 2014-16
In her series Liquid Landscape, Katrin Freisager creates archaic, imaginary landscapes. The photographs are very enigmatic. Following a process of her own invention, the artist mixes ink, pigment, oil and other substances with a large volume of water. She acmes to develop a faithful reproduction of her own imaginary images, without fully taking control of the process.
Her experiments take place in a photo studio and are entirely constructed. By zooming in on pigments and mixtures, the artist captures surprising nuances and details. Like an alchemist, Katrin Freisager creates landscapes which seem to evade any precise references, while also evoking places and situations which have never existed.
Katrin Freisager, Liquid Landscape 2014 - 16
70 x 105 cm each, Inkjetprint framed
Exhibitionviews Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2019
Photos: Sébastien Bozon
Katrin Freisager, My Sister Never Sleeps, 2009/19
This work is part of a series of photographs entitled My Sister Never Sleeps. The photographs are painstakingly constructed in a humid wooded environment. "My Sister Never Sleeps" is also the first sentence of a novel by the American author Beth Nugent. For Katrin Freisager, this expression reflects a state between the worlds of day and night, between security and threat.
Katrin Freisager, My Sister Never Sleeps, 2009/19,
LED Lightbox 20 x 25 cm
Exhibitionview Où sommes-nous, Kunsthalle Mulhouse 2019
Photos: Bruno Jericke