it is not me, it is an image of me

To make an object based on a photograph means adding dimensions such as space, time and continuity. Roasting skewers, hairpins and nails were the tools of self-liberation in the photo series Zerstörung einer Illusion ("Destruction of an Illusion") by Karin Mack, which was produced in 1977 with a self-timer and her hand processing work in the darkroom. Forty years after its creation, it is a new perspective that transforms and sets into motion the examination of the self-image and role as a woman into a three-dimensional object. Light and rotation create an illusory horizon of perception inherent in filmmaking and make the living shadows dance in the delirium of the real. (C. P.)

An encounter with photography via film — a meeting of two artists who work against the copy: skewers, nails, and hair pins that pierce a canvas, leave behind traces in the material. A dark room, black image, red light, negative, the positive en- larged to a fragment. Decisive is not the visible image, but rather making visible the process that led to the photo. (Michelle Koch, Diagonale 2018)