Christiane Feser – Coded Echoes
Christiane Feser graduated in 2006 from the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach. Currently she lives and works in Frankfurt. Trained as an artist focussing on photography as a medium, Feser’s strength lies in her command of light and shadow. After creating compositions out of folded paper, she uses a variety of light sources to add specific shadows to the folded forms which go through another stage of being photographed. The resulting print is then cut up and folded, and at times pins are meticulously placed or thread is woven into the composition, resulting in re-sculpted dizzying networks of geometric landscapes and panoramas.
68projects is pleased to present the solo exhibition Coded Echoes by German artist Christiane Feser.
Within Feser’s works, viewers are confronted with an array of visual phenomena. What initially appears to be a “photographic” surface soon reveals itself as an illusion. Rather than offering a straightforward depiction, Feser’s photo-objects invite an investigative relationship with the world—one that encourages aesthetic awareness and shifting perspectives.
As the two-dimensional pictorial spaces of her images encounter transformed layers of three-dimensionality, viewers find themselves within a vibrant and dynamic structure of new possibilities. In the multi-layered cast shadows, Feser’s hybrid works prompt a re-examination of the meanings of image-making and materiality.
Trained as an artist focusing on photography as a medium, Feser’s strength lies in her masterful command of light and shadow. She begins by creating objects from folded paper. Using various light sources, she adds specific shadows to these folded forms, which are then photographed. The resulting photographic print is subsequently cut and folded. At times, pins are meticulously placed or thread is woven into the composition, resulting in re-sculpted, dizzying networks of geometric landscapes and panoramas.
What is essential for Feser is the “emphasis of the lines” and the process of not merely recording a moment or an object, but instead engaging in an act of “tracing” her structures—and, by extension, reality and life as we perceive and experience them.
In addition to new works from the ongoing series Partitionen and Nullpunkte, the exhibition also presents works from the new series HOLO. In this body of work, Feser reinterprets the traditional silhouette technique—an early precursor to photographic imagery—and combines it with images of cast shadows.
Christiane Feser graduated in 2006 from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach and currently lives and works in Frankfurt. Her work has been shown in numerous institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Kunstverein Gießen, Kunstverein Gera, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kai 10 Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Ingolstadt), Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, and Museum Wiesbaden.
Awards and grants (selection):
Moldau Scholarship; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (Hessian Ministry of Science and Art); 1822 Art Prize of the Frankfurter Sparkasse.
Public collections (selection):
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); DZ Bank Art Collection (Frankfurt); Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe; Minneapolis Institute of Art, as well as international private collections.
The exhibition Coded Echoes was organised in cooperation with Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt.
