{"id":95669,"date":"2021-04-28T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/?post_type=extra&p=95669"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:57:31","slug":"b32","status":"publish","type":"extra","link":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/extra\/b32\/","title":{"rendered":"Katja Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

La pratique de Katja Mater, qui combine essentiellement photographies, films, et installations, proc\u00e8de d\u2019un travail sur et avec le temps, avec les temps :<\/span> le temps de l\u2019observation, celui de la captation, de l\u2019imbrication et de la superposition de ces derniers. En un sens, chez elle, tout instant est \u00e0 la fois celui qui le pr\u00e9c\u00e8de et celui qui lui suit, dans une sorte de cristallisation condens\u00e9e d\u2019un continuum temporel et de m\u00e9moire. En un sens, son travail est \u00e9minemment bergsonien et proustien. C\u2019est ainsi qu\u2019elle recourt souvent \u00e0 la pratique de la double exposition d\u2019un m\u00eame film photographique, qui lui permet de condenser plusieurs moments de captation sur un m\u00eame print. Cette m\u00eame porosit\u00e9 se retrouve dans une approche spatiale r\u00e9currente qu\u2019elle donne \u00e0 ses installations. Mater est en effet fascin\u00e9e par les effets de miroir ou, a contrario<\/em>, par des dispositifs se donnant \u00e0 voir (et, par l\u00e0\u2011m\u00eame, se d\u00e9robant toujours partiellement) de deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s et, en quelque sorte se superposant dans la conscience et la m\u00e9moire du spectateur. Mater explique que ces fascinations et obsessions r\u00e9currentes qui sous\u2011tendent son travail trouvent leur origine dans la dyslexie profonde qui la caract\u00e9rise depuis l\u2019enfance, ouvrant la voie \u00e0 la construction mentale de plusieurs possibilit\u00e9s d\u2019association se d\u00e9ployant et se superposant dans le temps. Time is an Arrow<\/em>, Error que nous pr\u00e9sentons ici est une s\u00e9lection de 8 prints issu d\u2019une s\u00e9rie de 79 cadrans d\u2019horloges atypiques, d\u00e9r\u00e9gl\u00e9es, que l\u2019artiste a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e pendant la p\u00e9riode du premier confinement li\u00e9e \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie du COVID\u201119. De son propre aveu, il s\u2019agissait de donner une forme suggestive et subjective \u00e0 cette perte de rep\u00e8res temporels habituels que l\u2019isolement dans lequel la plupart de l\u2019humanit\u00e9 se retrouvait plong\u00e9e. <\/span>Chaque print est r\u00e9alis\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on analogique, au d\u00e9part d\u2019un dessin d\u2019un demi\u2011cadran d\u2019horloge qu\u2019elle prend en photo. Elle le translate ensuite en miroir ou par rotation, avant d\u2019en retravailler ensuite les chiffres indiciels, pour donner corps \u00e0 ce qui ressemble \u00e0 un cadran complet. Quelque peu dysfonctionnels, ces cadrans \u00e0 l\u2019ordre giratoire habituel bouscul\u00e9, font \u00e9cho \u00e0 la perception bouscul\u00e9e que nous avons pu avoir de nos agendas quotidiens. Toutes diff\u00e9rentes et singuli\u00e8res, ces horloges expriment de fa\u00e7on simple la perception individuelle et subjective que nous avons de la dur\u00e9e, comme \u00e0 souligner en effet que le temps n\u2019est qu\u2019une fl\u00e8che sur un cadran (analogique) et que toute tentative d\u2019objectivation s\u00e9quentielle, absolue de ce dernier ne serait qu\u2019une erreur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katja Mater’s practice, which essentially combines photographs, films, and installations, proceeds from working on and over time, over time:<\/span> the time of observation, that of capture, of interweaving and of superimposition of these. In a sense, for her, every moment is both the one that precedes it and the one that follows it, in a sort of condensed crystallization of a continuum of time and memory. In a sense, her work is eminently Bergsonian and Proustian. In this way, she often resorts to the practice of double exposure of the same photographic film, which allows her to condense several moments of capture on the same print. This same porosity is found in a recurring spatial approach that she gives to her installations. Mater is in fact fascinated by mirror effects or, conversely, by devices showing themselves to be seen (and, therefore, always partially concealing themselves) from two sides and, in a way, superimposing themselves in the consciousness and memory of the viewer. Mater explains that these recurring fascinations and obsessions that underlie her work originate in the deep dyslexia that has characterized her since childhood which naturally opens the way to the mental construction of several possibilities of association unfolding or superimposing over time. Time is an Arrow, Error <\/em>that we present here is a selection of 8 prints from a series of 79 atypical, disordered clock faces that the artist developed during the period of the first lockdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. By her own admission, it was a question of giving a suggestive and subjective form to the loss of the usual temporal reference points that the isolation, in which most of humanity found itself immersed, led to.<\/span> Each print is made analogically, starting from a drawing of a half-dial of a clock that she takes a photo of. She then translates it into a mirror or by rotation, before then reworking the index numbers, to give substance to what looks like a full dial. Somewhat dysfunctional, these dials, with the usual jostled gyratory order, echo the jostled perception we may have had of our daily agendas. All different and unique, these clocks express in a simple way the individual and subjective perception that we have of duration, as to underline in fact that time is only an arrow on an (analogue) dial and that any attempt to its sequential, absolute objectification would only be an error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-95669","extra","type-extra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra\/95669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/extra"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}