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Katrin Joost
Zeitfluss – river of time
Landscape photography enchants by showing us views, often giving us the illusion that it is a simulation of ordinary seeing. Yet, not only do photographs show a particular place in time, but they also show a particular stretch of time – the exposure time at least. This time may be a moment (a decisive moment) or a substantial duration. Photographs, therefore, show not only the places depicted, but the time spent gazing at them.
© Zeitfluss, Katrin Joost
The images depict the river Isar in Munich, the landscape of my origin and youth, in many ways my Eden. I want to highlight my ongoing, changing relationship with my childhood home. And this work shows the moments, intervals, I spent looking at the Isar. Each image portrays an unrepeatable, indeterminate, interconnected Merleau-Pontian ‘thick moment.’ Essentially photographic and indexical, though not immediately recognisable, the work is, therefore, deeply personal.
© Zeitfluss, Katrin Joost
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