Kirsten Kleie works serially and with found pictorial objects. Found, not only in the form of real postcards, books, text or image templates, but also found in traditional ideas. These ‘representatives’ are detached from their original context, recombined and fed into the work process. The system of model/copy, discovery/disturbance, subject/object, reality/fiction is scrutinised. This changes the usual perception of images. As documents of time, place, longing or everyday life, the originals disintegrate and can no longer be read unambiguously. They begin to oscillate between their various meanings and the socially agreed conventions inherent in the photographic medium are called into question. The aim is to open up spaces of association and to make visible the often opaque superimpositions of our culturally and socially moulded stereotypes.

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