2020–2024
Terra Salis erschließt eine Landschaft, die seit Jahrzehnten vom Kalibergbau geprägt ist. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in drei Ebenen. Die erste gilt dem Salzberg über Tage, seiner Dimension, seinem Material und seiner landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung, aber auch seiner Rolle als Wahrzeichen. Die zweite führt in den Untergrund, zu Deponie und Salzwasserblase, zur Verzweigung des Systems und zu Kristallen und Mineralien, die dort eine eigene Landschaft bilden. Die dritte Ebene verbindet beide, denn hier treten die Spuren in belasteten Gewässern und salztoleranten Pflanzen an die Oberfläche. Die Arbeit fragt, wie Landschaft durch Planung, Eingriff und industrielle Aneignung geformt wird und was dabei aus klassischen Vorstellungen von Natur wird.
Terra Salis explores a landscape that has been shaped by potash mining for decades. The work is organized into three layers. The first is devoted to the salt heap above ground, its dimensions, its material and its agricultural use, but also its role as a landmark. The second leads underground, to the waste repository and the saltwater pocket, to the branching of the system, and to crystals and minerals that form a landscape of their own there. The third layer connects the two, as traces surface here in contaminated waters and salt-tolerant plants. The work asks how landscape is shaped through planning, intervention and industrial appropriation, and what becomes of classical notions of nature in the process.
Terra Salis
Softcover
23 x 27 cm
Design: Milena Albiez
216 pages, 145 photographs + 29 illustrations
Text in German and English
Published by Verlag Kettler, 2024
Funded by HMWK
Softcover
23 x 27 cm
Design: Milena Albiez
216 pages, 145 photographs + 29 illustrations
Text in German and English
Published by Verlag Kettler, 2024
Funded by HMWK
Solo Exhibition, AusstellungsHalle 1A, Frankfurt am Main 2024
4 x archival pigment print, framed, 70 x 57 cm
UV print on non-woven wallpaper, 200 x 164 cm
Found footage postage stamp, framed, 21 x 21 cm
UV print on non-woven wallpaper, 200 x 164 cm
Found footage postage stamp, framed, 21 x 21 cm
Video projection 9:16
2 x archival pigment print, framed, 40.4 x 33 cm
Archival pigment print, framed, 70 x 57 cm
35mm slide projection, 81 slides
Found footage newspaper article, framed under glass, 18.8 x 12.8 cm
2 x archival pigment print, framed, 40.4 x 33 cm
Archival pigment print, framed, 70 x 57 cm
35mm slide projection, 81 slides
Found footage newspaper article, framed under glass, 18.8 x 12.8 cm
UV print on non-woven wallpaper, 166 x 135 cm
7 x salt print, framed, 24 x 30 cm
Textpanel, typewritten, framed, 24 x 30 cm
7 x salt print, framed, 24 x 30 cm
Textpanel, typewritten, framed, 24 x 30 cm
Archival pigment print, framed, 100 x 81.5
4 x archival pigment print, framed, 46 x 37.5 cm
Birchwood table, 190 x 70 cm, with found footage postcards and prints
4 x archival pigment print, framed, 46 x 37.5 cm
Birchwood table, 190 x 70 cm, with found footage postcards and prints
15 x archival pigment print, framed, 40.4 x 33 cm
15 x archival pigment print, framed, 40.4 x 33 cm
10 x archival pigment print, framed, 40.4 x 33 cm
AusstellungsHalle 1A, Frankfurt am Main 2024
© Installation views: Katharina Jaeger, Fotografische Werkstatt
Poster design: Milena Albiez
Article "Biotop in Fotografien"
Panel „Landschaften des hessischen Kalibergbau“,
University of Kassel
Anna Bergold