Korfmann aims to capture the memory of a place in designing a literal image of time. The essence of both is the background, the flat surface to which she refers as 'space zero', on which she groups the different fragments of memory captured by the camera. This way, the originally two dimensional surface has become a new, more or less virtual space.
Even though the works to be seen in the show Count for Nothing originated at totally different locations on the globe, people do not look that different when seen from above. Only at a closer look, different cultures and rituals will become visible; such as products being carried on the head in the photo from Luanda (Angola). Also the black dresses of the women in Teheran relate to the Academic robes worn by the graduate students of the University of Cambridge.
Count for Nothing
Anton de Komplein, Amsterdam
ultrachrome print
size: 267 x 489 cm
105” x 193 "
year: 2018
Count for Nothing
Installation view
Anton de Komplein
Count for Nothing
Installation view
Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin
Count for Nothing
De Dam
ultra chrome print
size: 120 x 173 cm
47"x 68"
year: 2016
Count for Nothing
Running with the Bulls (2 x 12 min), Pamplona
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2012
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What we Believe In Ajax
(48 min), Amsterdam
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2010
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Vrindavan (41 Min)
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2012
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Nickel´s eye (27 min), Luanda
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2009
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Waiting for Atousa (1h), Tehran
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2009
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King´s College (7,5h 2d), Cambridge
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2009
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Waiting for Julia (3x10 min), Berlin
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39"
year: 2008
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Madison Boogie Woogie (64 min) New York
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57" x 39"
year: 2010
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Fast Forward,
Checkpoint Charlie (1,8h) Berlin
ultrachrome print
size: 144 x 252 cm
year: 2008
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Dom Antao (25 min), Lisbon
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 93 cm
57” x 39"
year: 2009
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Frank´s Office
(the German Window, 40 min), Hong Kong
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 108 cm
57” x 39"
year: 2009
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Chaharrah Sadi (24 min), Tehran
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39"
year: 2010
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Shanghai (46 Min)
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57” x 39 "
year: 2013
Count for Nothing
Installation view
Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin
Cobra
ultrachrome print
size: 120 x 173 cm
68"x 47"
year: 2012
In Cobra the technical and visual conventions which Katrin Korfmann brings into play are readressed through a visual as well as conceptual premise, by shifting the documentary and narrative aspects of photography and, in so doing, questioning its role as a witness of truth.
What at first sight seems to be a precisely painted abstract image turns out upon closer scrutinity to be an ice skating ring photographed from above.
What looked like paint strokes turn out to be scratches and piles of snow which are formed by the tracks that skaters have left behind.
The title of the work refers to the CoBrA movement and the visual language associated with those artists as well as to the actual cobra snake, which underlines this challenging multi layered readability in the image.
Xiamen
ultra chrome print
size: 120 x 173 cm
47" x 68"
year: 2016
Boardwalk
Boardwalk, Santa Cruz
ultrachrome print
size: 145 x 100 cm
57" x 39"
year: 2016
Korfmann aims to capture the memory of a place in designing a literal image of time. The essence of both is the background, the flat surface to which she refers as 'space zero', on which she groups the different fragments of memory captured by the camera. This way, the originally two dimensional surface has become a new, more or less virtual space.
Even though the works to be seen in the show Count for Nothing originated at totally different locations on the globe, people do not look that different when seen from above. Only at a closer look, different cultures and rituals will become visible; such as products being carried on the head in the photo from Luanda (Angola). Also the black dresses of the women in Teheran relate to the Academic robes worn by the graduate students of the University of Cambridge.