In her exhibition spatial, Alice Dittmar takes the gallery space itself as the starting point for her artistic exploration. Less understood as a classical presentation, her works are created in a direct dialog with the architecture: they blend in, react to light, materiality and atmosphere, and allow the space itself to become part of the work.
Dittmar works with photographs that she covers with the fine lines of a ballpoint pen. This delicate drawing transforms the surface into mirror-like structures that reflect both the space and the viewer back into the work. This creates fragile fields of tension between image, environment and perception.
The group of works entitled Moons – small photographic works that focus on the lunar cycle in different places around the world – literally float in space. The large-format work Weissensee Sommer combines landscape and water and develops a special presence due to its size and the fine ballpoint pen strokes. Depending on the incidence of light, whether from outside through the shop window or from inside the room, its effect changes.
With Inn Fluss, Dittmar is showing a work consisting of several square segments based on a river landscape. This floor work can react flexibly to the circumstances: whether reserved in a corner or crossing the room as a river.
In this way, spatial becomes an invitation to renegotiate space, work and perception – and to be surprised.