Temporary Installation in public space

location: Zeedijk, Amsterdam / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint
size: 2 times 250 x 800 cm
year: 2000

Katrin Korfmann’s first temporary public installation directly continues her interest in the photographic process. In this series of monochrome walls, it is not the photographer who determines the frame and moment of making the image, since this customary responsibility has been transferred to the audience.
A frame was put on the windows of a local ‘Bruin café’ on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, drastically curtailing the viewing space, so that it became a kind of viewing lens. On the opposite side of the street, a white wall of about 8 meters long and 2,5 meters wide was built.
Seen through the frame, the passing public (which at this location consists of a strange combination of tourists, Chinese immigrants, clients of the Red Light district, and sex workers) were perceived and isolated against the neutral background of the white wall, which disavows all specific details of the street, as if these figures were placed in a photo studio. In this peepshow, random passersby appear as fabricated images.

Thanks to: Rijksakademie Amsterdam & Pieter Kemink

Temporary Installation in public space

location: Zeedijk, Amsterdam / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint
size: 2 times 250 x 800 cm
year: 2000

Katrin Korfmann’s first temporary public installation directly continues her interest in the photographic process. In this series of monochrome walls, it is not the photographer who determines the frame and moment of making the image, since this customary responsibility has been transferred to the audience.
A frame was put on the windows of a local ‘Bruin café’ on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, drastically curtailing the viewing space, so that it became a kind of viewing lens. On the opposite side of the street, a white wall of about 8 meters long and 2,5 meters wide was built.
Seen through the frame, the passing public (which at this location consists of a strange combination of tourists, Chinese immigrants, clients of the Red Light district, and sex workers) were perceived and isolated against the neutral background of the white wall, which disavows all specific details of the street, as if these figures were placed in a photo studio. In this peepshow, random passersby appear as fabricated images.

Thanks to: Rijksakademie Amsterdam & Pieter Kemink

Temporary Installation in public space

location: Zeedijk, Amsterdam / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint
size: 2 times 250 x 800 cm
year: 2000

Katrin Korfmann’s first temporary public installation directly continues her interest in the photographic process. In this series of monochrome walls, it is not the photographer who determines the frame and moment of making the image, since this customary responsibility has been transferred to the audience.
A frame was put on the windows of a local ‘Bruin café’ on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, drastically curtailing the viewing space, so that it became a kind of viewing lens. On the opposite side of the street, a white wall of about 8 meters long and 2,5 meters wide was built.
Seen through the frame, the passing public (which at this location consists of a strange combination of tourists, Chinese immigrants, clients of the Red Light district, and sex workers) were perceived and isolated against the neutral background of the white wall, which disavows all specific details of the street, as if these figures were placed in a photo studio. In this peepshow, random passersby appear as fabricated images.

Thanks to: Rijksakademie Amsterdam & Pieter Kemink

Temporary Installation in public space

location: Zeedijk, Amsterdam / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint
size: 2 times 250 x 800 cm
year: 2000

Katrin Korfmann’s first temporary public installation directly continues her interest in the photographic process. In this series of monochrome walls, it is not the photographer who determines the frame and moment of making the image, since this customary responsibility has been transferred to the audience.
A frame was put on the windows of a local ‘Bruin café’ on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, drastically curtailing the viewing space, so that it became a kind of viewing lens. On the opposite side of the street, a white wall of about 8 meters long and 2,5 meters wide was built.
Seen through the frame, the passing public (which at this location consists of a strange combination of tourists, Chinese immigrants, clients of the Red Light district, and sex workers) were perceived and isolated against the neutral background of the white wall, which disavows all specific details of the street, as if these figures were placed in a photo studio. In this peepshow, random passersby appear as fabricated images.

Thanks to: Rijksakademie Amsterdam & Pieter Kemink

Temporary Installation in public space

location: Zeedijk, Amsterdam / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint
size: 2 times 250 x 800 cm
year: 2000

Katrin Korfmann’s first temporary public installation directly continues her interest in the photographic process. In this series of monochrome walls, it is not the photographer who determines the frame and moment of making the image, since this customary responsibility has been transferred to the audience.
A frame was put on the windows of a local ‘Bruin café’ on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam, drastically curtailing the viewing space, so that it became a kind of viewing lens. On the opposite side of the street, a white wall of about 8 meters long and 2,5 meters wide was built.
Seen through the frame, the passing public (which at this location consists of a strange combination of tourists, Chinese immigrants, clients of the Red Light district, and sex workers) were perceived and isolated against the neutral background of the white wall, which disavows all specific details of the street, as if these figures were placed in a photo studio. In this peepshow, random passersby appear as fabricated images.

Thanks to: Rijksakademie Amsterdam & Pieter Kemink