Katja Mater
dal 11/10/2013 al 7/12/2013
Segnalato da
11/10/2013
Katja Mater
Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
What We See And What We Know. Using pencil, paint and marker, the artist makes compositions on paper, objects and walls. During this process she makes photographs on one single negative.
This fall Marres presents What We See And What We Know, the first retrospective of work by visual artist Katja Mater (1979, Hoorn).
‘The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.’
- John Berger
We all know how photography works. The photographer looks through his lens, keeps his finger on the button and at some point decides to shoot. In pressing down the button, he says farewell to an endless amount of other images. The reality is captured in this one moment. Artist Katja Mater does the opposite. She very carefully searches for ways to capture possible realities. Using pencil, paint and marker, the artist makes compositions on paper, objects and walls. During this process she makes photographs on one single negative. The constructed image shows a process that does not have a ‘moment’; an accumulation of images that is never similar to the visible reality.
This exploration of the tension inherent in the controlled registration of sometimes unpredictable materials and processes also characterises other works by Katja Mater. She blends and splits colours, explores the laws of perspective and space, and shows how one medium passes into the other. Mater layers, compresses, stretches and rotates images in time. This way she plays with our expectation that photography captures reality in one single moment. Maters images exist parallel to this reality and invite us to redefine the relationship between what we see and what we know.
Katja Mater (1979) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2003 en completed her studies at De Ateliers in the same city. She was artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and The Mac Dowell Colony, both in the United States, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Her work was shown in, among others, Galerie Martin van Zomeren (2013), Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2012), De Vleeshal, Middelburg (2012), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2012) and, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève (2011).
Opening: Saturday, October 12, 5–7pm
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98 6211 RT Maastricht The Netherlands
Opening hours:
Wed-Sun, 12:00 - 17:00 pm
Admission:
€5,- (normal)
€3,- (students)
Children below 12 & museumjaarkaart free