Documentation Maia Gusberti Bern: Nydeggstalden 22, 3011 Bern (Postadresse) Brussels: rue des Champs Elysées 16D, 1050 Bruxelles Email:
[email protected] Website: www.maiagusberti.net Tel/Mobile: +41 78 909 60 62 ...to call the frame into question is to show that the frame never quite contained the scene it was meant to limn, that something was already outside, which made the very sense of the inside possible, recognizable. The frame never quite determined precisely what it is we see, think, recognize, and apprehend. Something exeeds the frame, that troubles our sense of reality; in other words, something occurs that does not conform to our established understanding of things. Judith Butler, The Frames of War. Verso 2009. p. 44 Artist Statement In my artistic work, I explore, how photographic images become a (tangible) poetic space of care, thought and agency by examining their materiality and framing through de-/reconstruction and entanglements of still and moving images: Images become handled, touched, treated and embodied, they expand in time and space and—in a self-critical attempt—depict and overwrite themself. Through fragmentation elements re-compose to a bigger picture and engage in a playful reflection about when and how an image touches its spectators. In my practice, images transfom through various media, remain in motion and take shape as process-oriented installations, assemblages, work groups, fragmentary essayistic layouts or videos and refer directly or indirectly to each other. They remain in motion, take shape as process-oriented installations, layouts, assemblages and fragmentary work groups, essayistic videos or book objects.