In My Head. Zirkulierende Bilder bei Wolfgang Tillmans & Martine Syms

Wolfgang Tillmans’ „Buchholz & Buchholz Installation 1993“ (1993) combines his own photographs, photocopies and magazine pages into a dense visual fabric that corresponds precisely to the presentation of his first solo exhibition in a gallery of the same name in Cologne. We thus experience a room within a room, whose images, distributed in seemingly arbitrary fashion, open up a perspective that from today’s vantage point is historical. Martine Syms, born 1988, goes even further: she reflects the digital omnipresence of images and, moreover, incorporates what has been found and experienced not only visually but also through (usable) objects into the spatial effect. In both cases we examine the circulation of images and their media presentation in context.