Images: Stephanie Kloss / Joachim Blank
Installation View: Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin 2024
Detail: Girl With A Cigarette (2024)
Installation Views: Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin 2024
Detail: Leica Black (2024)
Statement:
Starting point of the G.E.O is my involvement with an archive of the German-language reportage magazine GEO („Das neue Bild der Welt“, „Die Welt mit anderen Augen sehen“) from 1976 to the end of the 1990s.
After acquiring a second-hand magazine archive in 2018, I photographed the contents of these magazines with my smartphone while leafing through them. The resulting image archive currently comprises more than 3000 photos. My smartphone pictures mostly show image details, little to no text and mix advertising with editorial photo series. They form an independent, digital image archive, from which I am using a few images for the exhibition in the art space „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“ in order to process them further using my specific methods. This resulted in pictures of pictures of pictures. In „dialog“ with an AI and digital image filters, I created installative images that return to the physical space as large-format fine art prints with epoxy layers. I also reconstructed image fragments into AR figures with installative interventions in the space.
More info at @joachim.blank
More images @ „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“
AR-Apes @ Open AR