The point of departure for Stefanie Seufert’s exhibition is a current series of text images. Based on the work of the writer Anna Kavan (1901–1961), they arise in a process of multiple exposures and enlargements: a detached written passage becomes a freely circulating artifact leading to an imagined image.

In the opposite direction, i.e., from image to word, the path leads via figurative photographs accompanying the text works in a precise set of combinatorics, and then on to sculptures and photographic images made in the absence of a camera in order to (maybe) briefly free perception from conceptual thinking.

At the interface between photography, painting, sculpture, and performance, Seufert works primarily with analogue methods. She uses the material in its function and dysfunction and manipulates it to continually re-examine photography in the liminal space between subject and object.

In serial and repetitive processes, a system of superimposition and ambiguity emerges, which in this exhibition comes into contact with a poetic voice that radically refutes the logic and language of her time and confronts war with uncompromising subjectivity.