"Oh, ein Phänomen!"

pigment print

signed, titled and dated (pencil) on verso

The model is a series of folded and unfolded pigment prints. The picture becomes complete only through the folds and the resulting damage to the paper, in which the folding inscribes itself into the paper like a drawing.
On the one hand, the folding becomes part of the image of the sheets, on the other hand it unmasks the image by making the carrier, the paper, visible as such. This leads to an interweaving of the in itself disembodied picture and its carrier.

In her series, Caroline Heider examines images, their appearance, reproduction and, subsequently, their instrumentalization. Perhaps it is due to the incomprehensibility of light that light moods have so often been used in history as a representation of the creative. The immateriality and transience of light as a natural phenomenon was often perceived in the past as something unspeakable, something overpowering, which could trigger a "feeling of sublimity" that had become questionable.
(Ö1)