ARTISTAS IN VITRO

Photo weaving is a technique that I developed in 2000 from an ambivalent attitude towards photography. On the one hand, I am enthused to look at a photographic image that is detached from the place where it was taken. On the other hand, I wonder about the value of a photographic reproduction in the age of mass imagery.

I use scissors to cut up at least two photographs – typically with an identical motif – into horizontal or vertical strips in order to weave them together thus creating a photo weaving.

On my trip to Angola at the end of 2024, I temporarily wove photo strips with motifs from the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society into the Welwitschia mirabilis desert plant, then photographing it with the weave.

Top down, from left to right:

‚Same Thing 1‘, 2025

Photo weaving with four photographs, motif: growth phases of a Welwitschia mirabilis, taken from the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (1888)

‘Same Thing 2‘, 2025

Photo weaving with two photographs, motif: temporary installation of photographic strips in a female Welwitschia mirabilis, Namibe desert, 2024

‚Same Thing 3‘, 2025

Photo weaving with two photographs, motif: temporary installation of photographic strips in a female Welwitschia mirabilis, Namibe desert, 2024

‚Same Thing 4‘, 2025

Photo weaving with four photographs, motif: Welwitschia mirabilis, Berlin Botanical Garden, 2025

‚Same Thing 5‘, 2025

Photo weaving with four photographs, motif: Welwitschia mirabilis, Berlin Botanical Garden, 2025