Based on archival documents from the photo-collection of Austrian Film Museum I will challenge the question in how far FILM as an event, hence as an experience can be traced/documented/re-animated outside the darkness of the cinema. Through pairwise comparison of singular artifacts in various medias, correspondences and oppositions might shed light of what – and in which fashion – can be reflected and illuminate the state of mind from the past.  And equally important, which questions they might still conceal.

What is reality, how can we believe what we see, and what are the conditions of art have been recurring questions in Ernst Caramelle’s work since he first began exhibiting in the mid-seventies. “Art is a fake” has been his creed ever since. 

memoiré et doublier is the title of an exhibition Katrin Mayer developed for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2013. The title indicates relevant procedures of her site-specific practice. Derived from the terms ‚Moiré‘ et ‚Doublierware‘ it describes an unforeseen shift within a pattern or raster which occures during printing or weaving processes.