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30 Years

School of Friedl Kubelka for artistic photography, Vienna

January 10, 2021

Published by Fotohof, Salzburg, the project gathers 111 statements on photography by artists throughout the past 30 years at the School of Friedl Kubelka for artistic photography, Vienna. 2020

Salt coast, From the project “The Inceptive Ground, texture volume 01”, Analog photography, B&W Gelatin silver print, 45x60cm, 23 ° 11’21.72 ”S, 68 ° 30’54.39” W, 2018

Salt crystals_Formation 02, From the project “The Inceptive Ground, texture volume 01”, Analog photography, B&W Gelatin silver print, 45x60cm, 20 ° 07’57.07 ”S, 67°48’30.22” W, 2018

The Crystal Carpet

It’s a vast ground, all around, with no sense of scale and no signs of life. As I cross it, crack after crack, dusty winds push me away from reaching out to this shimmering white stroke of land at the end of the horizon.

As time passes by with countless steps, it still feels as if I were standing where I started. Eventually, it is there, in front of me, too sharp to walk on and too bright to look at — the crystal carpet as my ground.

It’s all about the step, careful and tense, feeling that alien friction and every single particle of its substance. As I slowly walk across it, my feet start to sink and are washed by the cold salty water, deeper and deeper, until I can’t reach the ground — I am floating.

Back on the shore, watching the water draining down my body. All that remained, in a fraction of a blink, so grainy, so thin, was a crystal carpet on my skin. It cloaked my body with no time to fear, just like this shimmering white stroke of land at the end of the horizon I captured to remember.

Crystal carpet on the skin, From the project “The Inceptive Ground, texture volume 01”, Analog photography, B&W Gelatin silver print, 45x60cm, 23 ° 11’21.72 ”S, 68 ° 30’54.39” W, 2018

Der Kristallteppich

Rundherum unbekannt weites Wüstenland. Ohne Gefühl von Maßstab und ohne Anzeichen von Leben. Dem staubigen Gegenwind ausgesetzt, durchquert man eine von Rissen durchzogene Erdlandschaft – mit dem Ziel den weiß schimmernden Landstrich am Ende des Horizonts zu erreichen.

Mein Schatten wird länger und trotz zahlloser Schritte, fühlt es sich an, noch am Anfang zu stehen. Schließlich liegen die kristallinen Spuren des ausgetrockneten Salzsees vor meinen Füßen- zu scharfkantig um meine Fußsohle darauf zu setzen und zu hell um diese mit bloßem Auge zu betrachten – der Kristallteppich.

Mit vorsichtigem Schritt nimmt man die Eigenschaften der Textur wahr: die raue Salzkruste, die fremdartige Reibung und alle Partikel seiner Substanz. Im fließenden Übergang sinken die Fersen tiefer im kalten Salzwasser. Schon bald bin ich vom Boden losgelöst- ich treibe.

 

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