Installations and large scale works, ongoing since 2018
Selection
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"Recently, we learned that the Nobel Prize in Physics was this year attributed for the “groundbreaking inventions” in the field of laser physics. Could it be that the laser, this small presentation pointer that anyone can carry on a keychain, would receive such an honorable distinction? This common object is indeed very significant and covers a particularly large field of application. From targeting to healing, it extends its benefits from atmospheric remote sensing for measuring the distance to the moon, to the supermarket barcodes readers or as a precise eye surgery instruments. Through its light – “spatially coherent, directional, monochromatic, high- powered” - and its multiple uses, it evokes and enlightens the territories of action and navigation of human beings." (1)
Lasers, bioluminescent organisms, her own displacement and other natural sources are some of Marta Djourina’s medium. In her practice, she explores analog photography, playing within its margins, experimenting with its processes, limits and failures – but also its activation in time and space.
Here, her camera takes the measure of the room and the laser pointer becomes her extension. Through gestures, technical movements belonging alternately to writing, spray-painting or photography, her own body and the tools become the intermediate, the vehicle to tame and conduct the light onto the surface. The space becomes a subject of investigation and the apparatus at the same time; a device of which she is a technical component and the reference scale." (2)
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"Rapid, brisk and wide movements are made possible. Djourina is able to physically walk from one end to the other of the large format of up to 3,5 metres, covering it in its entirety, from corner to corner, from edge to edge." (3)
"In the dark room, light is her material and Djourina is a part of her apparatus: with a light-source in hand, she imprints her trail on the light-sensitive paper on the wall. Her movements are both flowing and thoughtful. Body, consciousness and intuition are highly active. They work in unison and steer the ultimate appearance of the image. This devotional act is reminiscent of that of an action painter or orchestra conductor whose body is temporarily wholly at the service of their work." (4)
(1, 2) Marie DuPasquier: A FINGER ON THE PULSE, 2018 | LINK | PDF
(3, 4) Sarah Frost: Traces of the Hidden. Light drawings by Marta Djourina, 2018 | PDF
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Image index
1- 3 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 600 x 183 cm;
Exhibition views: Marta Djourina & Nils Kristofersson, 3:e Våningen, Göteborg, 2020; exhibition views: Daniel Grizelj
4 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view: Marta Djourina, Kennet Lekko, online.gallery collective | organized by RAM, pop-up space, Berlin, 2020,
exhibition photos: Andreas Baudisch
5 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view: VOCAB - Marta Djourina and Gary Schlingheider, Galerie Burster, Berlin, 2020;
exhibition photo: Silke Brühl
6 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 250 x 510, 4 parts, each 250 x 127 cm;
Exhibition view: 48h Neukölln, 2020; exhibition photo: Marie Mergler
7 - 8 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 250 x 380, 3 parts, each 250 x 127 cm;
Exhibition view: , "A Finger on The Pulse", at "The Others", 2018, in the former Hospital Regina Maria Adelaide, Torino, Italy,
curated by Marie DuPasquier, DISPLAY Berlin; exhibition photo by Max Hilsamer
9 Exhibition view; Recently Seen and Admired – Isabelle Borges, Marta Djourina, Michael Johansson, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, 2021; exhibition photos: Gunter Lepkowski
10 - 11 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view “Der Raum zwischen uns: Marta Djourina und Lisa Peters”, 2019, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Sofia; exhibition photos: Radostin Sedevchev
12 - 13 Studio views; photos: Marie Mergler
Installations and large scale works, ongoing since 2018
Selection
1
"Recently, we learned that the Nobel Prize in Physics was this year attributed for the “groundbreaking inventions” in the field of laser physics. Could it be that the laser, this small presentation pointer that anyone can carry on a keychain, would receive such an honorable distinction? This common object is indeed very significant and covers a particularly large field of application. From targeting to healing, it extends its benefits from atmospheric remote sensing for measuring the distance to the moon, to the supermarket barcodes readers or as a precise eye surgery instruments. Through its light – “spatially coherent, directional, monochromatic, high- powered” - and its multiple uses, it evokes and enlightens the territories of action and navigation of human beings." (1)
Lasers, bioluminescent organisms, her own displacement and other natural sources are some of Marta Djourina’s medium. In her practice, she explores analog photography, playing within its margins, experimenting with its processes, limits and failures – but also its activation in time and space.
Here, her camera takes the measure of the room and the laser pointer becomes her extension. Through gestures, technical movements belonging alternately to writing, spray-painting or photography, her own body and the tools become the intermediate, the vehicle to tame and conduct the light onto the surface. The space becomes a subject of investigation and the apparatus at the same time; a device of which she is a technical component and the reference scale." (2)
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3
"Rapid, brisk and wide movements are made possible. Djourina is able to physically walk from one end to the other of the large format of up to 3,5 metres, covering it in its entirety, from corner to corner, from edge to edge." (3)
"In the dark room, light is her material and Djourina is a part of her apparatus: with a light-source in hand, she imprints her trail on the light-sensitive paper on the wall. Her movements are both flowing and thoughtful. Body, consciousness and intuition are highly active. They work in unison and steer the ultimate appearance of the image. This devotional act is reminiscent of that of an action painter or orchestra conductor whose body is temporarily wholly at the service of their work." (4)
(1, 2) Marie DuPasquier: A FINGER ON THE PULSE, 2018 | LINK | PDF
(3, 4) Sarah Frost: Traces of the Hidden. Light drawings by Marta Djourina, 2018 | PDF
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6
7
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10
11
13
12
Image index
1- 3 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 600 x 183 cm;
Exhibition views: Marta Djourina & Nils Kristofersson, 3:e Våningen, Göteborg, 2020; exhibition views: Daniel Grizelj
4 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view: Marta Djourina, Kennet Lekko, online.gallery collective | organized by RAM, pop-up space, Berlin, 2020,
exhibition photos: Andreas Baudisch
5 Untitled, 2019, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view: VOCAB - Marta Djourina and Gary Schlingheider, Galerie Burster, Berlin, 2020;
exhibition photo: Silke Brühl
6 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 250 x 510, 4 parts, each 250 x 127 cm;
Exhibition view: 48h Neukölln, 2020; exhibition photo: Marie Mergler
7 - 8 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 250 x 380, 3 parts, each 250 x 127 cm;
Exhibition view: , "A Finger on The Pulse", at "The Others", 2018, in the former Hospital Regina Maria Adelaide, Torino, Italy,
curated by Marie DuPasquier, DISPLAY Berlin; exhibition photo by Max Hilsamer
9 Exhibition view; Recently Seen and Admired – Isabelle Borges, Marta Djourina, Michael Johansson, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, 2021; exhibition photos: Gunter Lepkowski
10 - 11 Untitled, 2018, direct exposure on analogue photo paper, self-made film negative, unique, 350 x 183 cm;
Exhibition view “Der Raum zwischen uns: Marta Djourina und Lisa Peters”, 2019, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Sofia; exhibition photos: Radostin Sedevchev
12 - 13 Studio views; photos: Marie Mergler