FRIEDERIKE HAMANN

Installation views Untitled1& 2

Untitled 2010. Digital print

Untitled 2010. Digital print

Untitled 2010. Digital print

Untitled 2010. Digital print

Friederike Hamann's new projection works create a hybrid space bringing built space and its representations together with the flattened plane of information graphics.

The works fall into two groups; the first are gallery-based projection-installations of changing colour relations and divisions of the projection field directed onto the gallery walls. Daylight is never excluded, and the cast of the projectors is allowed to play against the shifting force of the sun. The projections do not respect the geometry of the buildings walls and cut across floors and corners in a refusal of architecture's organising power.

In the second photographic set of works, the perspective of photography is also implicated in this denial and Hamann suggests different possibilities for organising the representation of lived space. This is done through the possibilities of coding in all its forms and in the subtlety of the human eye for detecting colour.

This merged field of graphic-data, colour coding and lived space, offers a possibility for documenting resonant places. One is reminded of the experiments of Annie Besant in the 1901 book, Thought-forms, or the chalkboard lectures of Steiner. This is a rejection of the return of the modern as an aesthetic field, and an attempt to retrieve something from a desire to rupture from established forms or imagine new ones.

By bringing together architectonic space and the graphic surface of information, Friederike's work collapses the defining parameters of an architecturally designed environment into a colour-coded lecture upon it. This process effectively re-flattens the photographic illusion and presents it as an interface like the surface of a page.