Polaroids

Ursula Kelm

Once again we find ourselves in the realm of opposites and bewilderment. In ever-changing registers, Kelm’s photography explores the interplay of permanence and transience. In a special way, it is a memento mori, a participation in the mortality, vulnerability, mutability of both to man and nature, of the photographer herself. Because photography singles out and freezes exactly this moment, fixes it in a dual sense, the photographer bears witness once again to the relentless passage of time. (From: „Von Bildern, die das Leben aufbewahren" | ‘On pictures that conserve life’ von | by Elisabeth Moortgat)