Eglistrasse. 2015

The present work focuses on this as its topic. It uses the texture mappings, borrowed from a digital 3D rendering imaging technique, and aims to translate this concept into physical space, using a projector and photography. No subsequent image editing tools have been applied during the creation of the images, they are based solely on photographic prints. A series of spatial fragments from a working and living space at the Eglistrasse in Zurich will serve as a case study. They were illuminated with two-dimensional image textures during the night and subsequently photographed. It is a dialogue with space and surface, the suspension of aligning space lines and the creation of a “devitalizing space“, the representation and effect of which is not unequivocally attributable to either the real or the virtual.

[Texture Mapping:
By means of this technique from the domain of 3D rendering, image textures are stretched (mapped) onto virtual 3D bodies, to thus simulate both their surface conditions as well as their spatial depth effect.]