intuitive printing

Intuitive printing is an artistic approach investigating the photographic print as a

living space generating meaning, where gesture, material, and time exist as visible

traces within the final image. It questions the nature and function of images in

tracing the complex stratifications that form within and between the ever-evolving

layers of personal and collective memory.

CYAN

I open my drawers and take out all the experiments, the ugly prints, the countless attempts to

communicate through images. The words written in photosensitive emulsion. The sheet I coated and

then forgot in the sunlight because I had another idea and the urge to follow it, or because

I was late picking up the children from school — all those pieces of paper that had been exposed

without an image and turned blue, completely blue. The paths I followed for a while,

the possible evolutions I didn’t pursue because they didn’t fit the overall harmony of a project.

All the unused remnants of my work. (…)

Grete (Wykofer)

There is an invisible thread that runs through time, stitching the past to the present.

A thread that binds the fragile existences of Jewish children persecuted in Nazi Germany

— threatened by the stormy sea and protected by a Jewish woman—to those

of children born in the early decades of the Third millennium. It is the thread

of family genealogies, of lingering memories, and of History that keeps repeating itself

—with its wounds, its tensions, its never-extinguished anxieties.

“(...) The images are wonderfully and profoundly repetitive: there is my mother, their car, and the

vastness of the desert, all witnessing to the depth of their affection. The infinitely great and the infinitely

small converse in every frame, like two halves of the same story. (...)”

“(…) Crafting a music album and artist book out of a choreography, wondering where the dance vanishes

after it is performed. Creating a record of what is, by nature, fleeting and ephemeral. All of this is an act of

translation—maybe the only human act that truly holds meaning (…)