An exhibition by Diane Meyer is on display at the Mitte Museum Berlin until February 23, 2025, as part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
During Paris Photo, the Gallerie Sit Down showed a selection of works from the series soberly titled Berlin where the artist combined photography with cross-stitch embroidery. It was accompanied by these few words:
Diane Meyer uses this embroidery technique to make the wall that divided the city appear, like a ghost. Although it was destroyed in November 1989, traces of its existence remain perceptible. Certain parts of these photographs taken with a medium format camera were thus masked by cross stitch, added by hand, directly on the support. The embroidery, by its materiality, is slightly raised in relation to the surface of the print. It thus highlights the artificial limits created by the wall and literally becomes a barrier for the rest of the landscape. The pattern created borrows from the visual language of digital imagery and offers a pixelated view of what lies behind. Thus, it both reveals and conceals the wall and appears as a translucent trace or ghost of something which no longer existed in the landscape, but still weighs on history and memory.
Mitte Museum Berlin : Diane Meyer : Absence / Rappel
until February 23, 2025
Mitte Museum Berlin
Pankstraße 47
13357 Berlin, Germany
www.mittemuseum.de
Galerie Sit Down
www.sitdown.fr
