KOMPONENTE
Components
are
segments
of
a whole,
but can
also be
autonomous,
standing
for
themselves.
They
represent
both,
the
whole
and
its
individual parts.
At the
same time, they
are
a cell
and
an entire
body.
Likewise,
concrete
is
a building
material consisting
of
components:
sand,
water
and
cement.
Combining
these
single
elements
with
each
other
leads
to
a compound.
Regular formwork
defines
basic
shapes
of
the
initially
liquid concrete.
It
defines
its
character
and
inscribes
itself
into
the
surface
of
the
material. What
is
left
is
the
negative of
a positive.
Working with
formwork
is
about
returning
to
the
basic
shapes
of
architecture,
of
geometry
– or
mathematical
sign
systems.
At the
same time, these
moulds create
a kind
of
architecture
en miniature,
evoking
the
high-rise
buildings
of
classical
modernism,
the
creations
of
Le Corbusier
or
of
Oscar Niemeyer. Formwork
is
a connected
system:
as
a single
object,
it
refers
to
the
entire
system
of
a building
and
within
even
the
smallest
part,
we
find an embodiment
of
the
whole
construction.
At the
same time, a striking
ambivalence
between
room
and
surface
comes
to
the
foreground,
a graphic
abstraction
which
has
interested
me
for
a long
time in my
photography.
My
starting
point
was to
examine
these
moulds as
positive and
negative constructions,
expressing
the
principle
of
transmission
of
the
one
into
the
other:
as
an imprint
of
the
formwork
shell
into
its
concrete
counterpart.
I am fascinated
by
this
process
well
known
from
printing
and
sculpture,
of
course,
but also from
analogue
photography,
where
a reflection
of
the
world
inscribes
itself,
through
light, into
the
emulsion
of
the
film. So it
is
also about
the
Idea
of
a trace,
relicts
that
evidence
much
earlier
actions,
surviving
through
their
materialization
in a new
medium.