Again still erratics perhaps
Bärbel Reinhard
Again still erratics perhaps reflects on how we (un)rely on photography in a continuous stream of images as documents; their disruption, reuse and overlay in multilayered contemporary cut and paste culture; and on how new intimacy can be built from imagery of the public sphere. Fragments of found images from magazines are combined with archival images, rearranged, remixed with organic elements, and recontextualised in sculptural compositions. By rephotographing these assemblages, time, space and mass collapse again into a single surface, alluding to strange taxonomies, to empathy and abstraction, to bodies in a kind of forecasting deja-vu.
More than a project, Again still erratics perhaps is an ongoing flux of chapters, merging materials and ideas by dealing with possibilities of non-narrative narratives. Intertwined with the idea of erratic displacement, these photographs become projection screens of imagination and memories, a liminal threshold of associations between identity, origins and collective authorship. To whom may they belong next?
Bärbel Reinhard (b. 1977) is a German artist, teacher and curator based in Tuscany, Italy. After graduating in Art History, Sociology and Modern German Literature at Humboldt-University Berlin, she followed a three-year photography programme at Florence’s Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Her work has been exhibited in various shows in Italy and abroad, whilst her images have been published by the likes of Liberation, La Republica and Phroom. The main focus of Reinhard’s work lies in the characteristics and limits of photography as a time-space-tied medium. Moving between observational photography, mixed media installations, assemblages and collages with both her own and found material, she works primarily on long-term projects.
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Website: www.baerbelreinhard.com