a r e a

Claude Horstmann

a r e a is Claude Horstmann’s third solo exhibition at the Laura Mars Gallery. The exhibition title’s allusion to the question of region and terrain is both an approach and a statement on a theme that affects us all. Photography’s status occupies a special position in the artist’s work; she is concerned with open zones and empty spaces in the field of urban space (especially Marseilles in this case) and with features of ‘marked’ space. Along with autonomous photographic works, she also produces drawings from a range of photographic sources and makes these autonomous in terms of their main spatial effects, and a particular tension arises between the various different works in the process. The marked space in the photographs is the extended field in which architecture and anarchitecture are contingent on one another – that shifts in the exhibition to material, autonomous, drawn suppositions.