{"id":17817,"date":"2014-11-13T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2014-11-13T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:39:59","slug":"capturing-the-poetry-of-synaesthesia-with-natalie-czech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/capturing-the-poetry-of-synaesthesia-with-natalie-czech\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing the poetry of synaesthesia with Natalie Czech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Natalie Natalie Czech. Photo by Peter Kaaden.<\/p>\n

Natalie Czech may be a photographer, yet she chooses to create images with words, and sees them as especially potent as a means of engaging other senses. \u201cI am very interested in the different qualities of what a writer can do and\u00a0what a photographer can do. Probably their differences can only be found in the nature of their respective media. I\u2019m trying to make this apparent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of synaesthesia, where experiences stimulating one sense are perceived though another, fascinates Czech, who is originally from Neuss and an alumnus of the Kunstakademie Du?sseldorf: her publication of works with Spector Books includes around 40 pages of adverts that had appealed to other senses \u2013 touch, smell, taste \u2013 though using only sight to perceive them. She notes that words are always present in these adverts. Since a photo requires words to create an experience that creates a perception of another sense, she reasoned, how could a photo be truly synaesthetic?<\/p>\n

Czech\u2019s work \u201cVoyelles\u201d from her recent Capitain Petzel show, \u201cI Cannot Repeat What I Hear\u201d, addresses this question head-on. Here, she asked several authors to write a letter to herself, the artist, describing a hypothetical synaesthetic photo. Photographs of these letters alongside addressed envelopes are shown, along with the rimbaud poem from which the series takes its name. This poem suggests colours for each of the vowels, which are used on the letters and envelopes of Czech\u2019s work. The authorship of the photo may seem confused, but Czech is\u00a0clear on her intentions: \u201cThey [the author] suddenly become the photographer. Even though I photograph the letter, it\u2019s them who are the producers of the picture we finally imagine in their texts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Natalie Natalie Czech studio. Photo by Peter Kaaden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That show also featured works from the series \u201cPoems By Repetition\u201d, where the artist presented photographic prints of texts, highlighted to create a poem that sits next to the piece on the gallery wall. Take, for example, her work based on three photos of the cover of Pink Floyd\u2019s single for \u201cMoney\u201d, highlighted to create the Aram Saroyan minimalist poem: Ney. Mo. Money. \u201cIt was obvious that I was looking for the word money, somewhere it could make the complexities of the poem visible. This single was about everything bad that money brings. But it turned out to be one of their biggest successes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Czech\u2019s process is not planned from the beginning, but rather she discovers these contextual meanings as she works. \u201cIt\u2019s once I find the poem in a text, then I start to go deeper into the context, the history of the object where it is embedded. Finally, for me, they have to work as images too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Natalie Natalie Czech’s studio. Photo by Peter Kaaden<\/p>\n

The title of the exhibition gives another clue about the effects of poetry Czech works to bring\u00a0out: repetition. Arguably, one of the defining features of photography is its capacity for reproduction. This concept of repeating is crucial\u00a0to both poems chosen and the mode in which it is displayed. \u201cWhat does repetition mean? It means sound, rhythm, refrain, even stuttering. So I tried to find poems which use this rhetorical stylistic device.\u201d Poetry is a literary form that invites re-creation: \u201cA poem is meant to be reread\u201d, as Czech puts it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This culminates in works that challenge both mediums, photography and poetry. \u201cThe poem only becomes readable when you start to work with the photographic means of reproduction. They only exist the moment I reproduce the same medium or source.\u201d The photographed objects have been reproduced again and again: a Kindle ereader, the covers of famous records. It is what Czech does with these \u201cunoriginal\u201d photos that makes them unique. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Text by Josie Thaddeus-Johns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taken from Sleek #41, What & Why<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more about Natalie Czech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more studio visits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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