M O M E N T S - GALLERY #1
The moment of the gaze is our longing. It remains a mystery, something which only shows itself hiddenly or, in showing itself, immediately closes itself off again. But we recognize the familiar scene from afar...

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S T O R I E S - GALLERY #2
Quite a few terrible, unforgettable and enchanting stories remains to tell...

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W O M E N - GALLERY #3
Queen and snake, seductress and booty, the urge towards chaos and at the same time the guarantee that everything will remain as it was...

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C O U P L E S - GALLERY #4
A couple is always a third entity in itself, with a life of its own and its own history and physiognomy. New life arises from coupling. It is thus a work of art and the site of work on a myth.

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P A P Y R I - GALLERY #5
What is foreground and what is background? What is figure and what is ground? Usually one believes what is visible and works. The alchemistic or shamanistic way sticks to experience, to what has been truly experienced.

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P O R T R A I T S - GALLERY #6
Through the gaze I come to light and through the gaze I become a participant in its effects... (Lacan) Love is such a coming into the gaze, a coming into the world in the gaze of the other who changes everything. Art is akin to this gaze.

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P O R T R A I T S (2) - GALLERY #7
Is it not the face and the individual, but the mask that is the real subject and work of photography? However, the face and mask were for a long time by no means fixed opposites

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P R E P A R A T I O N S - GALLERY #8
Behind what is familiar are hidden paradoxes and adventures. Life knows more about us than we generally believe. We create an order, it breaks down; we create an order once again and break down ourselves...

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M I R R O R I M A G E S - GALLERY #9
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air... We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep...

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T E X T S On Claudia van Koolwijk's photographic art write (in German):
Alfonso Hüppi 'Art and Nature' | Thomas Huber: 'Photography is always already an Image' / 'Face' | Maria Kreutzer: 'Photography and Allegory' | Blazenka Perica: 'Mirror Images' | Hans D. Jünger: 'In the Moment of the Gaze'

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