(copyright - Annette Kisling)
“Annette Kisling photographs unintelligible things with utmost lucidity. In her current b/w series, "les vitrines", these are the shop windows of the early 21st century, embedded in the bourgeois facades of Paris's inner boroughs-commodity stages arranged for optimal visibility. In Annette Kisling's work, however, their purpose is lost. Here the gaze expands to capture both the interior and the exterior, that which lies behind the windowpane and that which it mirrors: cars, trees, sky, building facades, street alignments. Everything stands side-by-side and simultaneously permeates everything else. This is necessarily so, yet the principle underlying this order is difficult to name. Annette Kisling calls this principle "layering", and by this she refers also to an intertwining of history and the present.”
Exhibited in Galerie Kamm, Berlin.
