Andreas Müller-Pohle: Codex

Video installation

Curated by Zsuzsa Megyesi The three exhibited works of German photographer, video artist and theoretician Andreas Müller-Pohle show his most recent video and photowork. In his installation Digital Partitures, by means of an alphanumeric code he projects what is considered to be the first photograph taken by Niepce in 1826 from the window of his studio. Another installation in the exhibition called Entropia might be interpreted as a metaphor for the medium of contemporary photography and its current situation. The viewer is witness to the shredding of eleven thousand photographs and then the dance of their torn remains on the membrane of a loudspeaker as they are "celebrating" their rebirth. The third work in the exhibition is a photoproject by the name of Zyclogramma, which comprises of photograms made out of recycled photos as well the series Signa that he has been working on since 1989. From various perspectives, the artwork of Müller-Pohle reflects on the revolutionary shift of digitalization that diminished the tradition of pictorial analogy and created new mediums. The exhibition as a whole constitutes the newest work within his series Digital Partitures organized in the Goethe Institute in the spring of 1997.