Tatjana Danneberg
Tatjana Danneberg's works are made using photography. These are not photos randomly selected from the iPhone roll. They are taken intentionally, sometimes with an analog camera, sometimes in a lo-fi aesthetic. Blurred memories are captured in the photos - nothing concrete, rather moments between some other important events. Days where nothing happened, places where you forgot you were. In the midst of these frozen moments, Tatjana's camera is lively.
The themes are usually casual. A laundry dryer, a vacuum cleaner scaled to the size of a car, monumental, as if he had painted himself, a hand holding a lipstick, flippers. There is also an unnecessary wicker chair that is burning in the garden. Nothing that would arouse special nostalgia.
Danneberg enlarges the photos and prints them on a transfer foil, which is primed with paint. Dried sheets are soaked again and transferred to the cloth. The final shape of the painting is revealed only after peeling off the foil.
Only a fragmentary part of the photos and non-memories will remain, delineated by a painterly gesture, in line with the traces of the brush left by the applied ground. As if the brush knew what to paint. But his path on …
Tatjana Danneberg's works are made using photography. These are not photos randomly selected from the iPhone roll. They are taken intentionally, sometimes with an analog camera, sometimes in a lo-fi aesthetic. Blurred memories are captured in the photos - nothing concrete, rather moments between some other important events. Days where nothing happened, places where you forgot you were. In the midst of these frozen moments, Tatjana's camera is lively.
The themes are usually casual. A laundry dryer, a vacuum cleaner scaled to the size of a car, monumental, as if he had painted himself, a hand holding a lipstick, flippers. There is also an unnecessary wicker chair that is burning in the garden. Nothing that would arouse special nostalgia.
Danneberg enlarges the photos and prints them on a transfer foil, which is primed with paint. Dried sheets are soaked again and transferred to the cloth. The final shape of the painting is revealed only after peeling off the foil.
Only a fragmentary part of the photos and non-memories will remain, delineated by a painterly gesture, in line with the traces of the brush left by the applied ground. As if the brush knew what to paint. But his path on the large canvas is marked by the artist's body, her physical fitness, and her shoulder height and width. Movement after movement, rhythmically, it delimits the composition of the picture according to intuitive choreography.
Courtesy of Dawid Radziszewski
