"Dissection"

paint on gelatin silver prints on cardboard

titled, dated and signed (pencil) on verso

For the graphics, black and white photos from an illustrated book about the 1920s were used. They were sprayed with a drop of white lacquer and folded. The photo was then regularly cut up and reassembled in a different order. Especially from a distance, the collages look like maps. Psychological landscapes. Even if one is unaware that the photo book presents people in psychiatric institutions and that no faces but only hands and fragments of hospital furniture and institutional clothing can be seen, despite the cool aesthetics and formal legibility, a sense of unease resonates. One reason for this could be that the blotchography method used is reminiscent of the extremely popular Rorschach test, a widely known psychodiagnostic procedure.
(Ingeborg Erhart, 2013)