by default highlights works by Brigitte Kowanz and Kristina Nagel that explore the relationship between visible appearance and hidden presence. Aftereffects and latencies shape images in which something is already inherent without being immediately recognizable. Signs and physical impressions do not appear as complete forms, but rather as carriers of information and experiences that only gradually reveal themselves. For both artists, such intermediate states arise through processes of transference, repetition, and material transformation.
In her photographic work, Kristina Nagel develops an autonomous visual language at the intersection of physicality, materiality, and form. In the work of Brigitte Kowanz, light, language, and information are transformed into new forms of apperance through reflections, repetitions, and codings. The works of Kowanz and Nagel focus on what remains perceptible between the original impulse and the afterimage.