The Objects, 2009

After training in set design, Ulla von Brandenburg thoroughly developed a language based on theater’s self-reflection throughout the twentieth century. Her works speak of phantasmatic apparitions and open up doorways onto other worlds, where different corporeal and mental dimensions reign. One of her most well-known works, created for a 2003 exhibition at the Kunstverien Braunschweig, consists of an 1858 photograph by Henry Peach Robinson, entitled Fading Away, which she displayed on a large wall. The photo portrays a young woman on her deathbed, in the presence of three family members.