HORIZON VANISHED

Katrin Korfmann

The German artist Katrin Korfmann, who lives in the Netherlands, emerged as the winner of the Rado Star Prize for her work Count for Nothing. Korfmann transforms real landscapes into flat, cubist planes. Her images result from systematic processes of alteration. She seeks out specific locations in the world, and then selects a detail to photograph. In the future image it will be the stage on which make their entrances and exits. Transit areas, railway stations, airports and public squares are especially suitable. Everyday life and coincidence are welcome in these images. But the end results presented in this exhibition have undergone many modifications. A finished work consists of multiple shots, digitally processed and blended together into visual collages. Angles change; the frontal shot gives way to an extreme, vertical camera perspective. Space is distorted, authenticity broken. In her work, Korfmann dedicates herself to investigations of time, the perception of space and memory, and observing how people behave, both individually and in groups. And before her lens, we are also only potential dots on a monochrome background. Linda Dobke