Roma – vm. 365/39/51 masw

Maria Sewcz

Maria Sewcz was a fellow of the Villa Massimo in Rome during the past year. During her stay, she had the opportunity to experience the structure of the city intensely and physically. She was particularly interested in the historical layers of the city, its constant flux and the resulting simultaneity and mixing of many time scales. In her work, Maria Sewcz consciously took up the position of someone arriving from outside. This allowed her to create photographs as spontaneous reactions to constellations of things and situations, reflecting in them her own movement in space as well as chronologies and controversial perceptions. The photographs she has created integrate diverging aspects into their motifs and perspectives and the relative magnitudes or spatial situations they capture. They interact in her poetic pictorial language to form an essay that shows the city, far from the familiar images of tourist attractions, as a complex historical and social structure in the present day.