Archive of Experiences
2023

Museum am Rothenbaum-Kulturen und Künste der Welt

Solo Exhibition at the MARKK Museum, Hamburg

On occasion of the 8th Hamburg Photography Triennial

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Description
This project reimagines an archival album in the MARKK Museum collection. The interventions made here are microscopic photographs of these original albumen prints from 18502 to 1868. The microscopic photographs (portions in gold tone) which reveal the microbial as well as climatic conditions suffered by the album is collaged back onto a scanned copy of same.

The exhibition consisted of four different bodies of work

  1. Breaking eggs in Vietnam Series
  2. The Albumen Story 
  3. The negative album 
  4. An imperial gift 

 
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