publication, 2004

Texts by Mique Eggermont, Arno van Roosmalen, Ronald Van de Sompel
Interviews with Catherine David, Rein Wolfs
Design: Susanne Kriemann
Publisher: Städtische Galerie Erlangen
Edition 500
German/ English
ISBN: 3-923899-29-7
€ 12.50

In view of a world public, which is again and again ready to doubt the mediated reality, the representation of the problematization of the subject matter ‘fiction/ reality’ becomes a political issue. Therefore an essential part in Kriemann’s work holds its subtext. It aims at social agreements as expressed in history and its transcriptions, as well as at identities, identifications and the role of actors and spectators. The exchange and dissolution of fixations is its intention as well. Yet, in a playful way, Kriemann tackles international issues between humour and seriousness. At the moment of presentation within the actual museum space, the fictive and the virtual materialize and become tangible. On the other hand, the removal from its usual context makes it absurd. Against the background of an almost identical, daily receivable reality, she puts the uncontrolable into her radius of agitation and transforms the feeling of being handed over into an act of defence. At the end, the questions remains; whether camouflage is an attribute of the narration itself, of the narrator, or of the space where the narration takes place.

Lisa Puyplat, director of Städtische Galerie Erlangen