Beate Ermacora
With “CASES” Sinje Dillenkofer tackled a theme that might seem trivial at frst view. What should be interesting about old storage cases, tattered containers and caskets, one could argue, especially if they are empty? Yet, the artist leads us through these subjects to a cosmos of its own that is -unexpected and surprising – able to tell a multitude of stories that deal with cultural valencies, gender relations, societal habits, beauty and violence, time, and in the end also with life and death. While doing so she steers our attention in a subtle way towards shapes, colors and materials, confronts us with moments between concrete legibility and the abstract, involves us in a game of perception, where we recognize, both guessing, and at the same time being asked to fll the gaps that she is enigmatically working with, with our own imagination; thus asking the question, how we read and interpret photographs.