Sophia Kesting. Rewriting the Photographic Image
FT System Blank was used for Sophia Kesting. Rewriting the Photographic Image. From the artist’s website:
Between 2020 and 2022, Leipzig-based artist Sophia Kesting was invited by FOTOHOF archiv to work with its holdings and to develop strategies for discussing and appropriating historical materials used in the medium of photography.
As the subject matter for her artistic research project, Sophia Kesting does not use those groups of works that are right at the centre of FOTOHOF archiv’s conservational work. Instead, she explores the edges of the collection when she literally twists and turns the images of a now historical slide archive that was once used to teach photographic technique. By means of artistic, performative interventions, she discusses and reflects on media conditions, brings gender roles to light and questions them.
The designers of Studio Fjeld write (translated from the German):
The catalog […] can be viewed as an independent work rather than just a publication accompanying the exhibition. […] The lavender-colored fine paper cover focuses on simplicity. A simple bilingual typographical system is established in the flaps, which manages with only two font sizes. The strictly gridded sans-serif interviews on thin, uncoated, colored paper contrast the lively picture spreads and move around the edges (of the collection) through the deliberately narrow margins.
The book was published in the FOTOHOF>ARCHIV series.
