Works

INGRID DORNER: LIMINAL
LIMINAL, a series consisting of 17 photographic metamorphoses, is the story of a world that destroys itself while awakening every one of our senses. In this, the physical disintegrates, powerless in the face of a heavy external influences and violence. Using a chemical photographic process in which the gelatin on the paper detaches, shifts and reassembles, the artist interprets the dramatic and poetic metamorphoses of sensual perception in images.
13 June 2023 – 24 June 2023
On June 13 at 7 pm all are invited to the opening reception at the gallery. The artist is present.
The following works are presented in the show:
INGRID DORNER: LIMINAL
LIMINAL is a series consisting of 17 photographic metamorphoses.
LIMINAL is the story of a world that destroys itself while awakening every one of our senses. In this, the physical disintegrates, powerless in the face of a heavy external influences and violence. Using a chemical photographic process in which the gelatin on the paper detaches, shifts and reassembles, the artist interprets the dramatic and poetic metamorphoses of sensual perception in images. With this series, she wants to show that nothing remains rigid: the photograph, which sui generis is intended to capture and freeze a moment in life, becomes a sculpture, like a moving and infinitely changeable matter. Every picture tells this reality, this truth. Using a chemical process based on the Mordançage technique, she challenges the classic codes of silver photography. The composition and the contrasts of the original image direct her emotions and gestures and instinctively determine her decisions. Memories emerge and feed the narrative of an unfolding series. Like a poet who relates words, sounds and rhythms to evoke images, she combines lights, movements and contrasts to suggest a new, sensitive view of reality. Faces disintegrate, bodies are perforated, silhouettes disappear and become translucent and fragile. Through the use of light reflections, she still gives the picture a glimmer of hope and brings optimism, intending to evoke ambivalent feelings and emotions in one and the same image. This magical balance is the artistic quest that guides her. LIMINAL conveys the universal message that our security is deceptive – that the truth belongs to no one. LIMINAL sees itself as a trigger to think about one’s own existence and about the philosophy of life – occasionally accompanied by a wink.
Ingrid Dorner was born in the Auvergne in 1980 and is Breton by choice. Rather by chance, she emigrated to Munich. The stage was her first education and passion. This theatrical dimension is reflected in her photographic work in a more or less visible way. From the Rolleiflex to the Camera Obscura, she is no stranger to any photo taking method. The possibilities offered by her recourse to the techniques of the early days of photography were the impulse for her photographic work, later leading to her philosophical and poetic approach.
Ingrid Dorner’s photographic work has been published in several catalogs and magazines such as Blind Magazine, LoosenArt, Aeonian and Rûm. In 2018 she received a scholarship from the Alexander Tutsek Foundation for her project Ferdinand1777, several awards such as B. the Prize of the Festival of Young Visual Artists in Saint-Raphaël in 2019 and this year the first prize of the Passepartout Photo Prize in Rome and a selection for the La Muta Prize at the Biennale di Senigallia.