Thirty Flashes
2023

a collection of 30 camera flashes exposed as photograms on light sensitive paper
187x183cm

This work refers to the artwork “thirty flashes” by Peter Miller
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Bon Point
2023

The ornamental cuts in this large-format, colored paper can also be found in older photo albums, where they serve as picture holders in a similar arrangement. An educational diligence picture (in French 'Bon Point') shows Joseph Niépce, the inventor of photography. 

198 x 135 cm

Wanderer

2012/23

This Polaroid series interprets the advertising and visual language of an older Nikon EM camera brochure. This SLR camera was advertised in the 1980s as an easy-to-use device: “Just focus and shoot, SLR Camera for Women”. 13 selected polaroids taken in Salzburg-Hallein during the residency at the Summeracademy Salzburg by german sculptor Manfred Pernice
each 14 x 16 cm, framed

Bron+Co
2023

8 retouched commercial photographs on fine art paper, dichroic film, vintage frames, each 35x29cm

Bron+Co. was founded by Pierre and Joseph Bron in 1948 and continued later as Broncolor, producing professional studio flash units in Allschwill, Basel.

exhibtion views at standard/deluxe, Lausanne 2023 

SX70 (astro turf)
2022

astro turf (artifical lawn)
120 x 145 cm

reproduction of the shape of the skin from a Polaroid land camera


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