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\u00ab Achtung Zeitloch \u00bb (Attention! Time hole)\"ZEITL\u00d6CHER\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\n Anke Heelemann<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2015
\nInstallation
\nFOTOTHEK, Karl Liebknecht Stra\u00dfe 10, Weimar
\n10 zograscopes, each 5,5 cm x 5,5 cm x 22 cm<\/p>\n

From October 20th to November 30th people who passed the FOTOTHEK in Weimar (Germany) risked falling into a time hole! They could embark on a journey through the time by means of 10 zograscopes. Anke Heelemann installed them in the display window of her specialist shop for forgotten private photography. The look into the peep-boxes offered passers-by a view into an impossible past. Anke laid several diapositives of her photo-collection in a row, so that the scenes – illuminated by artificial or daylight – seem to be one. Due to the optical effect of the zograscope, intensified by the superimposition of the pictures the observer sees the resulting images in three dimensions. Sometimes there even seem to be movement in the pictures, when the observer slightly shifted his position. This effect is purely analogue; there is no digital impact on it.<\/p>\n

Zograscopes sunk a little bit in oblivion in our current digital age. Perhaps one remembers them as children\u2019s toys from his infancy, when he was fascinated by the three dimensional pictures inside. However, they were really popular in the second half of the 18th century as fair attraction or parlour entertainment. This optical device for enhancing the sense of depth perception allowed a society without modern mass media glimpses into an unknown world from unreachable countries, landscapes, flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

The impressions that provide Anke\u2019s time holes are in a similar manner journeys into an unknown world. The used photographs are taken by anonymous authors in different contexts and are dating from a time range around 1920 to 1980. So the resulting mixed images are showing perhaps unspoilt landscapes overlapping a city street scene; Aunt Berta sitting in the jungle or Uncle Hugo having tea with his daughter who has the same age as him. During the time of the installation Anke changed the original photos with the result of uncountable new surreal combinations of time, space and humans. It came to an interaction in between things, which had nothing to do with each other before. They are fusing to a new sensual scene.<\/p>\n

These analogue collages of time and space have to stay ephemeral. It\u2019s impossible to record the depth perception of the zograscope. We can only give an idea of the images as two-dimensional photographs. For the rest everyone\u2019s imagination has to work on its own.<\/p>\n

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