By default shows works by Brigitte Kowanz and Kristina Nagel, who investigate the relationship between visible appearance and hidden presence. Aftereffects and latencies shape images in which something is already inscribed without being immediately recognizable. Signs and physical impressions appear here not as completed forms, but as carriers of information and experiences that reveal themselves only gradually. In both artists' work, such intermediate states arise through processes of transfer, repetition and material transformation.
Kristina Nagel (Frankfurt am Main, DE) develops in her photographic work an autonomous visual language in the field of tension between corporeality, materiality and form. Leather forms a constant point of reference in her work and, in the current group of works, becomes the material memory of physical presence. The traces inscribed in it increasingly detach themselves from individual bodily attribution and develop a visual quality of their own.