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Monika Brandmeier: Bilder und Blicke/Pictures and Views
April 6 – May 25, 2007
Formatting Blick/formatting gaze, 2004
3-part series of b/w photographs
each 118 × 144 cm
Monika Brandmeier (German, b. 1959) will have her debut exhibition in Chicago with the presentation of three works: two photographic series and one video piece. Her piece Formatting Blick (2004) is comprised of three gelatin silver prints each depicting a wooden palette, a piece of cardboard, and four small corner-shaped pieces that imitate the frame indicators one sees when looking through a camera’s lens or viewfinder. Brandmeier’s pictures show the arrangement from three distinct vantage points – and in each picture the objects appear to have radically shifted. For Brandmeier, this proves that the act of photographing is a “projection,” one that does not simply record things as they are, but rather a process that imposes the technical conditions of the camera and aesthetic choices of the photographer onto the final image. Also on view will be Drei Antworten auf Zwei Fragen/ Two Answers to Three Questions (2000) and Löffel/Spoon (2003).