KATHRIN BURMESTER
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Baseboard, Carpet, Curtain In her Baseboard, Carpet, Curtain series one might ponder photography�s unresolved relationship with painting. The highly pixelated color of the surfaces composed from extremely enlarged cell phone images seem to want to liberate photographic representation from its dependence on the real. The images beg to be abstract.
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But no matter how much one might want to see abstract painting here, there seems to be no getting around the matter of the digital photograph and the banality of its content. After all, the images are what they are: highly pixilated photographs of baseboards, curtains and carpets, referencing generic institutional environments.
Images:
4 � Baseboard, 2007, digital c-print, 45�x56�
5 � Curtain, 2007, digital c-print, 45�x56�
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