WOLKENFORMEN / 2017-2018

WOLKENFORMEN
2017-2018
Cyanotype on paper.

"Wolkenformen" consists of a series of 57 cyanotypes of quotes on clouds selected from the book "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald.
The various quotations collected in this context are thus divided into six different categories, alluding to Luke Howard's classification of clouds in 1803, and printed through the old photographic technique of cyanotype. The six categories are: War Clouds, Sublime Clouds, Holy Clouds, Profane Clouds, Associative Clouds, and Spiritual Clouds.
The choice of this photographic technique alludes to the very relation that Sebald explores in his books between text and image as a way of reflecting on collective and subjective memory.
The photos in the book "The Rings of Saturn" are manipulated and reframed by Sebald, questioning their authenticity and capacity as a means of representing the real. Following this same logic, in "Wolkenformen" we seek through new frameworks and photographic reproductions to dilute the border between text and image by resorting to a selection of quotations from this book selected from the German, Portuguese and English versions.

WAR CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm

SUBLIME CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm

SACRED CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm

PROFANE CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm

ASSOCIATIVE CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm

SPIRITUAL CLOUDS

Quotation: "The Rings of Saturn", W. G. Sebald
Cyanotype on Paper, 21, 5 cm x 17, 5 cm