- Photography
Two seconds
Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer
28 June 2024 19:00–22:00
29 June 2024 10:00–22:00
In the middle of a restless city, quiet places cast a spell over us. Poetry sometimes only reveals itself for a brief moment. But the perception of this silence demands all the senses. The absence of noise unfolds its own presence, which manifests itself not only in the images: A new language develops in the silence. The language of the architecture, the wasteland, the empty streets and playgrounds. A language that speaks of exhaustion and expectations.
‘Zwei Sekunden’ raises questions: How do we find our way around the city when the expected acoustic signposts are missing? Gringmuth's photographs show the longing for silence as an unattainable ideal. Photography itself becomes a medium for seeing, feeling and hearing silence. The visibility of silence reveals a city that tells its own unique story in the excess of silence.
‘Zwei Sekunden’ raises questions: How do we find our way around the city when the expected acoustic signposts are missing? Gringmuth's photographs show the longing for silence as an unattainable ideal. Photography itself becomes a medium for seeing, feeling and hearing silence. The visibility of silence reveals a city that tells its own unique story in the excess of silence.
Biography
Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer
Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer, born on 11 January 1969 and raised in Berlin-Mitte, is a journalist and photographer.
His first camera was a 6x6 roll film camera, a present from his father for his 12th birthday. He had barely come of age when he invested the money he was earning as a locksmith in an SLR camera. He converted the bathroom of his first flat into a darkroom and photographed bands at concerts when he wasn't on stage playing guitar.
In the last 15 years, Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer has specialised in urban photography. He is fascinated by the rare moments of emptiness in the centre of the city. The search for this runs through his work.
His first camera was a 6x6 roll film camera, a present from his father for his 12th birthday. He had barely come of age when he invested the money he was earning as a locksmith in an SLR camera. He converted the bathroom of his first flat into a darkroom and photographed bands at concerts when he wasn't on stage playing guitar.
In the last 15 years, Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer has specialised in urban photography. He is fascinated by the rare moments of emptiness in the centre of the city. The search for this runs through his work.