At the Museum

In this series the photographer looks for the connexion between real and fictive space. The room, the white sheet, the digital space are the places where these connexions happen. „At The Museum“ combines different rooms and explores how they might affect visitors. The photographer combines her own photographs, of ink dissolving in water, flowers on a meadow, snowy mountains, her own paintings, with photographs of rooms in museums or of rooms constructed with mirrors and colored glasses. We build mental spaces through our experiences and our imagination, the influence of media, and as a result we build new mind spaces, which overlay each other. The room we build in our mind often differs from the real room, from the real condition in which we live. What is the role of photography in this play between real and fictive rooms? And is there such a thing as the real room? People in a museum are confronted with new languages, new mind rooms, they step into new dimensions to forget their own. Some of the visitors seem to feel comfortable and enjoying themselves, others show doubt and self-consciousness, their posture is defensive. To enter a new mind space might be dangerous, but is it not vital to look into the mind space of others, to discuss and talk and exchange ideas? Some rooms seem to be a stage, on which people tread reluctantly or which they leave hastily. Perhaps they fear that on this stage they could be assigned a new role. The Series „At the Museum“ tells of the adventures of the visitors of the fictive museum, but also becomes an adventure for the viewer of the pictures in the pictures, who perhaps asks himself where the main stage might be.