Ingrid Dorner has practised photography since she was a teenager. However, for a long time she did not show her pictures to anyone, preferring stage performance as a form of artistic expression. It was only recently that she decided to use photography as a means of expressing her emotions, questions and impressions of the mystery surrounding some of her family members. "I am very interested in the idea of trauma and how one experiences the trauma of one's ancestors, the transmission of trauma," explains Ingrid Dorner.
She got hold of the negatives of photographs taken by her grandmother Edith, who was known in her family for being a bad photographer, in the sense that she missed a lot of shots. She even earned the nickname "Blurry Grandma". Paradoxically, her "lost" pictures served as raw material for the work of Ingrid Dorner, who marvels at the beauty of these blurred pictures. "My grandmother had a whimsical personality and we got along wonderfully," the artist recalls.
Ingrid Dorner superimposed her grandmother's negatives on her own, and more specifically on those she had not used. In other words, she channelled leftover material from her own work into this project. By superimposing these two sets of negatives, Ingrid Dorner blends two worldviews and two eras: she follows in her grandmother's footsteps while shaking up the fixity of the original shots. By creatively using material frozen in time, she interrupts the cycle of forgetting that surrounds it and breathes new life into her pictures, while at the same time replenishing and enlivening the act of remembering. It can thus delve more intensely into the enigma of lineage.
by Jean-baptiste Gauvin
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