The environment in which people move reflects, influences and defines them. For the most part, urban spaces are the living environment of our civilisation today. This is countered by the longing for the beauty of untouched nature. - Natascha Küderli's art moves in this field of tension between nature and the urban. With her collages, she specifies the spaces and alienates them at the same time. In this way, both the flood of impressions of urban space and the vastness of nature can be experienced anew by the viewer and at the same time always throws him back on himself.
This approach finds expression above all in the medium of collage - in cutting and gluing. The viewer can feel the cut edges and recognise them in reflections on the photographic paper. The assembling of the new reality remains perceptible as a fugue.Here, analogue photography presents Natascha Küderli with a challenge, as she does not want to process or manipulate the photographs after they have been developed. The day, the moment, the mood and the light decide both the photography and the expression of the collage.
All works are handmade, numbered and signed collages of photographs taken in analogue. Most of the motifs appear in an edition of six pieces, each in a different size. Some works are individual pieces.
In Hebrew, the "heavens" - "Heavens" (שָׁמַ֫יִם = shamayim) are always in the plural. And they have seven names: Dok, Rakia, Shechakim, Zevul, Maon, Machon and Aravot. William J. Morford explains this in the glossary in his Bible translation "The One New Man Bible", which he wrote in close collaboration with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, whose life's work made Modern Hebrew the national language of Israel.
In the New Testament at 2 Corinthians 12:2, Paul tells us, "I know of a man in Christ that fourteen years ago-whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knows-that this one was caught up to the third heaven." (Elberfelder Bible)
"In truth, however, heaven is a mystery. We will only see what heaven is really like when we get there. ”
"The medium of collage - namely cutting and gluing - in combination with analogue photography shows newly composed situations. Natascha Küderli wants to show a new point of view, but not a digitally manipulated reality. Through cutting and gluing, the viewer can feel the cut edges as well as see them in the reflection. ”
Please feel free to visit me in my studio in the whiteBOX in Munich.
Natascha Küderli
c/o whiteBOX Ateliers
Atelierstrasse 18, Werk 3, 3rd floor
D - 81671 München
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