Barbara Trommer

Born in 1981 near Munich, Germany

2001-2007 studied conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, class of Prof. Res Ingold

Lives and works in Genoa (Italy) 

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"My artistic work spans a wide range from sculptural and installation works to drawing, printing and photography. What all works have in common is the creation of their own worlds and metaphors: places, rooms and beings are alienated, reinterpreted, ambiguous, hyperreal. They question the viewer’s “certainties”. The key and access to these worlds lies in the viewer‘s own consciousness."

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Models of intense perception of time 

[Dr. Till Julian Huss, published in "Trommeter-Szabó 2004-2015", adapted/abridged excerpt]

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Things have their own time, an aesthetic inherent time. (...) If every thing possesses its own measure of time as inherent, then a special inherent time may correspond to a certain place in the specific relation of its compounds, of the objects assembled and particularly all the events that have taken place there.

Barbara Trommeter works on the unveiling of these inherent times of places – in their aesthetic tangibility. (...)

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The image we have created of an object or of a place and which we can recall in our mind’s eye as memory, does never originate from one single glance. (...) Our perception and our memory work differently. Our memory of the appearance of an object is simultaneistic: It comes from a variety of particular impressions, so called Momentaufnahmen (snap shots). Only by combination, by the overlay of all these impressions our Erinnerungsbild (image as memory) is formed. Nevertheless, this abundance of particular impressions is only possible through an aesthetic perception, says philosopher Martin Seel. (...)

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That is, because only in the dialectics of hyperreal virtuality and artificial reality it is up to the beholder to assure themselves of their relation to reality. "If you give someone hyper-reality, then they have more of a perspective on what's really real," says artist Janet Cardiff.  (...) It seems to be absurd that we need an elevated reproduction of reality before we get closer to an intense experience of the real. (...)

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(...) [Barbara Trommeter] very emphatically points out how at the interface of perception, time and memory our access to reality may be experienced in a mediative world.

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