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Susa Templin questions the three-dimensional qualities of the medium of photography in ever new, expansive installations.

In her artistic work she examines the contradiction of space and surface in the image, the temporality and the three-dimensionality in the photographic confrontation.

In her expansive works and installations, the viewer is invited to walk around sculptural-photographic works and individually experience motivic, optical and contextual references of the works in relationship to their own body and point of view.

For New Viewings, the artist develops a new multi-layered, sculptural work with „Serpentine_superimposed“: an expansive photographic sculpture overlapping different printed materials is created for the gallery space, which, suspended from the ceiling, is located between surface and three-dimensionality. Here, Susa Templin works for the first time with photographic elements that are exposed directly onto reflective aluminum. On „Serpentine_superimposed“, transparent and solid image carriers intertwine in terms of content and motifs. Photographs of architectural steel and glass constructions and the proliferating plants of an abandoned palm garden overlap both physically and optically. Images taken analogously with the 6×6 camera find their counterpart in the superimpositions of the motifs on winding aluminium plates and printed foils.

The organic forms of the plants meander as if in contradiction to their architecturally constructed surroundings, resulting in flowing, almost abstract three-dimensional pictorial and sculptural elements.

Meanwhile, the walk-in „Labyrinth of Spaces,“ 2021 opens up a multitude of spatial perceptions. In this installation, rooms and places overlap architecturally and intellectually. Image by image and layer by layer, often through multiple exposures the photographically captured space is deconstructed, distorted in perspective, interlaced and subjectively recomposed. Photographic images from interiors are printed here on transparent foils that float freely in the exhibition space. Overlapping each other, kaleidoscopic new perspectives on interior and exterior space, on the conditions of architecture, the photographic image as well as one’s own memory emerge are being adressed.