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Berit Schneidereit

Info: Berit Schneidereit’s artistic work moves within the spectra of photography. She uses different strategies to question the concept of photography and to explore new, independent paths. Her practice focuses on a researching and exploratory approach with a focus on a sensual, physical experience of photographic image spaces. In many of her works, Schneidereit subtly formulates questions about the relationship between man and nature. On closer inspection, the works show traces of human activity here and there, the industrial nature of which contrasts with the organically growing plants and trees. These fragments of urban parks and gardens open up associations with man’s attempts to tame and contain nature. However, the architectural obstacles seem surmountable. They seem to have been enclosed by the surrounding nature and incorporated into its habitat. For her experimental exposures, she uses photosensitive paper, which reacts with light to create a wide variety of shades. It thus serves as a seismograph of direct, external circumstances. The photogram technique, in which light imprints emerge in direct contact with the paper, is an essential aspect of many of her works. The resulting grids, for example, run through the entirety of the surface, structuring what is shown into a multitude of layers and details that look like digital pixels. In other works, she uses painterly gestures to create the idea of a curtain. The works can thus also be related to a dramaturgical moment: They show while simultaneously concealing. (…) Joint opening of the galleries in Düsseldorf-Flingern.