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I just moved into this space between two walls: Barbara's works right above the bed on one side. I took a snapshot when I arrived, from the view Barbara's plaster figures have: in this way the opposite wall becomes a picture. A sink in the right corner, beside it a desk with a two-flame "BroilKing" on it, covered with a mess of my things. Above the sink a board, on it a mirror with a damaged edge and a whole battery of cleaners for the tub, the floor, the dishes. My photo is far away from the cold-colored, anonymous snapshots Richter uses in his 'Atlas,' and I am at least not so naive to call this photo art. It is rather the other way around: with the sculptures behind me, I am looking at things with the distant look of an adopted child, I am writing about the art I am living with, and its imagined view of my messy privacy of German books and scrambled eggs.

Christian Rattemeyer, Osmos Galerie Berlin, Art Historian