Latency in the Representation of Geopolitics and Power in the Photographic Work of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
About
My research investigates the archive of the German artist Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, known for her mostly black-and-white conceptual photographs of architecture within landscape. Schulz-Dornburg’s archive forms a unique record of lands, people and places which have since irrevocably changed, making it vulnerable to reading through a single historical lens.
Taking her archive as a complex case study, I investigate how its contents are positioned and repositioned politically across time. Through breaking away from a chronological reading of the artist’s archive and allowing for a perpetual circulation of images, which shift back and forth in response to future and past events, I aim to reveal an entanglement of histories which overlap and converge in time and space.