serendipity
9 min. Loop
four slideprojections on four screens
2019
as part of the Meisterschüler:innenausstellung at Weserburg, Bremen
"In her work, Sara Förster investigates the representational strategies of various imaging processes. In doing so, she works with the possibilities of already obsolete photographic techniques such as slide projection or Polaroid. She prefers to use foreign images and photo archives, which she appropriates, manipulates, and places in new contexts, thus enabling new ways of looking at and interpreting them. Common to all these works is that the materiality of the photographic image is accentuated in its physical presence. This seems to be of particular importance against the background of a digital image culture, since in our everyday lives we are confronted with increasingly fleeting images, which preferentially light up on the screens in rich colors and contrasts, capturing our attention for a short time, only to disappear again quickly. Förster counters this with a different, decelerated space of experience. {...} Sara Förster's artistic approach is both at the same time: on the one hand, an atmospherically dense installation that makes it possible to experience the emotional impact of the images. On the other hand, an analytical reflection on what functions an image fulfills today, what it can mean and effect. "
Ingo Clauss