Archive

As a projection surface, Erik Niedling uses historical photographs that he found as a thirteen year old boy in the attic of his grandparents‘ house. Now, almost two decades later, Niedling sifted through this find and assembled fourteen images into   the Archive series, processed them and integrated them into his artistic body of work. (…) Niedling‘s conceptual and aesthetic approach in his series Archive prompts the  viewer to face the fact that every present inevitably becomes the past and the time in between remains unpredictable. The past takes on a new meaning and is re-evaluated, sometimes also forgotten. And the contours of memory, oscillating between fact and fiction, can become indistinct. (Excerpt from Erik Niedling – Fotografien / Photographs, Text by Ute Noll, Schaden, Cologne, 2006)