With the start of photography, the image metaphor by Leon Batista Alberti that has been formative since the Renaissance – the image metaphor of the look out of the opened window – dissolves in favour of its reification: The first documented photographic images which were produced by different procedures by Niépce und Talbot have already been credentials of this new image quality – reified window pictures in a direct way.
But these photographic image’s reifications also are of virtual presence: different from the look out of the window, it is also impossible to move towards and to have a look at close range what one had seen before.
The group of works “Osmotic In-Between” is a performative image survey in the presence of spaces of time and space-times which are interfering with each other: The photographic images show something that had never been like this, but has become of this, because it is like this elsewhere.
The images’ process of generation is that digital interiors of cultivated plants in front of opaque cut glass were transmitted to a TV set.
The technical aperture mask’s structure of the TV set, which presents time lapses in effect and which also has qualities
