Katja Mater
Residency period March – April 2017
As Much Time as Space is a 16 mm film installation of 8 ’ 24’’ minutes, conceived at Van Doesburghuis, during Katja Mater’s residency. It consists of one film, projected by two projectors, using the time it takes for the pellicle to travel from one projector to the other — 8 seconds, as a framework for the film. The film was shot inside the atelier and combines architectural features of the house with Mater’s own drawings. Projected as a split screen we look at a play between past and present that every once in a while merge to form a new reality, providing a surreal time experience. A wandering narrative exploring tables, stairs, space- and time-perception, colour and a selection of Theo and Nelly’s artistic legacy.
The work was conceived for the exhibition ‘ De Kleuren van de Stijl’ in Kunsthal KAdE , Amersfoort NL. It was bought and shown by Centraal Museum, Utrecht and subsequently shown at the Beurschouwburg , Brussels; Narva Art Residency , Estonia ; International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR . Stills from rushes were published in BILL Magazine.
Work in process, Katja Mater, 2017
Katja Mater is a visual artist who studied at the Rietveld Academie and subsequently attended the two-year program of de Ateliers, in Amsterdam. Her practice focuses on the parameters of photography and film from a meta-perspective, using them as non-transparent media. By creating hybrids between different media, installation and performance she documents something that is often positioned beyond our human ability to see. Interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, Mater mediates between time, space, perception and our understanding of them, she records events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretation.
