After exhibiting at the Mitte Museum in Berlin as part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the Galerie Sit Down presents Diane Meyer‘s first exhibition in France, specifically her series entitled Berlin, in which the artist combines photography and cross-stitch embroidery. The artist uses this embroidery technique to create a ghost-like appearance of the wall that divided the city. Although it was destroyed in November 1989, traces of its existence remain visible.
Portions of these photographs, taken with a medium-format camera, were masked with cross-stitching, added by hand directly onto the surface. The embroidery, by its materiality, is slightly raised above the surface of the print. It thus highlights the artificial boundaries created by the wall and literally becomes a barrier to the rest of the landscape.
The resulting pattern borrows from the visual language of digital imaging and offers a pixelated view of part of the original image. Thus, this manual intervention on the photographic print both reveals and conceals the wall, appearing as a translucent trace or ghost that no longer exists in the landscape, but which still weighs on the history and memory.
Diane Meyer : Berlin
June 5 to July 26 2025
Galerie Sit Down
4 Rue Sainte-Anastase
75003 Paris, France
www.sitdown.fr
