Visual perception is a dynamic process that can be characterised by the unceasing succession of sensory impressions. Gudrun Barenbrock pursues this perception process with the camera, photographing and filming light and backlighting, shade and reflection. The result is pictures in which the surfaces and objects serving as imaging and reflection surfaces disappear. Nothing remains as a clue to the specific place where the photos were taken. She documents not what endures, but instead the transient – traces of light, movement and dissolution. And although the correlations with empirical reality are greatly reduced, her pictures nevertheless reveal “meaning” (Roland Barthes). Her installations subject the visible reality manifested in the pictures to artistic reflection.

LichtRouten Piece: Untitled

Gudrun Barenbrock has photographed and filmed light and backlighting in urban settings for her LichtRouten 2010 pieces. This projected pictorial material becomes an aura of colour and form moving through the space, decomposing on semi-transparent projection surfaces installed in the space and creating a pulsating continuum.

LichtRouten-location: Alte Post (today: Musikschule) I Altenaer Straße 9