Katrin Korfmann

Ballet Rehearsal Number Five

Katrin Korfmann's work is at the intersection of photography, film and installation. In her work she creates tension between silence and movement. Korfmann is attracted to the spectacles of everyday life that usually take place in public spaces. By capturing people in motion, she forms a new perspective on busy urban environments as portraits of contemporary transitions. Korfmann adopts a critical attitude towards the world around her, explicitly towards contemporary visual culture. Using a multitude of photographs she took herself, she explores their historical, social and visual effects. She abstracts and plays with her subject by zooming in and out at the same time. Korfmann simultaneously creates a suggestion of distance and proximity, showing mysterious realities that neither the eye nor the artist's camera could have comprehended. Her images are both: an interpretation of her experience and of the collective social memory.

Katrin Korfmann (1971) - Ballet Rehearsal Number Five, 2018
Piezography.
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This work is located in a waiting room of Poli 3.