Stefanie Seufert, blind (1, magenta - green), 2011
, Photogram on slide film, pigment print, Edition 3/5 + 2 AP, 87 x 72 cm
Kollitsch Collection
Given the lightness, transparency and colourfulness of the image compositions, the name of the “blind” series appears confusing at first, but it is in fact derived from the image formation process in the darkness of the photo lab. The photograms on slide film are the result of experimental creation processes whose outcome is uncertain. In extensive darkroom work, shapes and colours are layered, folded, moved and exposed for different lengths of time, over and over again. The result is a delicate image construct in abstract formal language that provides a glimpse of the multi-layered creation process.
— Magdalena Koschat
Stefanie Seufert, Towers, Option II, Dark Aubergine, 2016
, Photogram on photography, folded before exposure, 180 x 35 x 35 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Large-format photo paper, which can be newly folded and exposed in the darkroom again and again, ultimately transcends the boundary between sculpture and architecture. Layered and superimposed traces of various photographic processes engender a specific materiality, which Seufert elaborates in her series and now is also extending into space. Fragile, strangely monumental, and curiously self-alienated, they issue from a folding of the image that is now occupying space, embracing and enveloping space, but also suggesting the idea of an (interior) space of the images themselves.
— Reinhard Braun