Im CUBO: Claudia Rohrauer

Analogue Fieldwork
The installation at CUBO provides an insight into an artistic and research-based exploration of the potential and possibilities of sustainable analog darkroom practice and plant-based developers as an alternative to conventional photographic chemicals. The central starting point is the property of plants to act as a developer substance through the phenols and polyphenols they contain and to be able to reduce silver salts to metallic silver. The resources, materials and materiality of image production are up for debate.
The environment and surroundings in Lindabrunn become accomplices and co-producers of photographic image production; as an artist, I hand over control of the processes to plants, weather, light, temperature and, last but not least, to chance, which may bring about chemical reactions between the light-sensitive photographic material such as film and paper and the plant phenols that cannot be calculated in advance. What is depicted and what is depicted grow together in the picture plane. Process documentation and final results meet on an equal level.
Artist: Claudia Rohrauer
website: http://www.claudiarohrauer.info