What gives us stability, what provides security?
Many answers could be found, but they all have one thing in common: their transience. Space and time, on the other hand – at least within our lifespan – endure. They are the constants that we can rely on from our first breath to our last, as individuals and as a society. In the midst of a fleeting existence, they offer reliability. They are fixed coordinates of our everyday perception – apart from Einstein’s relativity. But what happens when these apparent constants begin to waver? When space and time elude our usual view and we are forced to experience them anew beyond the familiar order?
This is where the series Space over Time begins.
Through the slit-scan technique and thousands of image sequences, works emerge that transcend the framework of traditional photography – and in doing so, challenge our habitual ways of seeing.
Space and time are not only rendered visible in new ways, but become perceptible on an entirely different level.
Space over Time is slit-scan photography : temporally scanned image strips create compositions in which movement becomes structure.
In practice, a narrow slice of the scene is sampled over a defined duration; direction, step width, and sampling rate determine how rhythm, velocity, and repetition become visible. Rather than fixing a moment, slit-scan charts sequence—lines, waves, and layers are the traces of real movement. The works are produced as high-resolution pigment prints on archival paper, optionally framed with museum glass. Each edition is limited and accompanied by a certificate—made for collectors and spaces that want to experience art, not merely display it. In this way, the question of space and time becomes tangible: as surface, as structure, and as a physical presence on the wall.
The experience of existence begins to move. It shifts, changes direction, and opens itself to new perspectives.
What remains is an image – and a sense that our perception does not end at the visible.
Slit-Scan Fotografie und Slit-Scan Art at its best.
