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Two Comprehensive Photo Installations by Susanne Kriemann at Kunsthalle Winterthur

WINTERTHUR.- Susanne Kriemann composes her works based on historical and social research. The artist often reproduces vintage prints and combines the appropriated material with new photos taken by herself; the emerging convolution of pictures is a result of visual association and formal analogies, but at the same time it derives from topics that were linked to the original context of the pictures. At Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kriemann shows two comprehensive photo installations. The walkable panopticon of One Time One Million (2009) presents product photographs of an original Hasselblad camera next to pictures of individual birds, flocks of birds and aerial views of housing developments. The pictures are part of a suggestive visual network, but at the same time they share a context that is based on information: Hasselblad, who invented the world famous camera, was an enthusiastic ornithologist and took hundreds of pi