Heike Baranowsky
«Three States»

In this installation developed in 1993 for a 'tour' of the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (College of Fine Arts), Heike Baranowsky projected photos of unreal or nonexistent spaces onto a specially prepared ground. The artist produced the slides by photographing into an architectural model, ca. 40 x 40 x 70 cm, that she built out of wood and cardboard. In the slide projection, the images of the interior rooms are blown up to life-size, i.e. projected into human scale. Three 'interiors' were projected onto three ca. 1-cm-thick wall surfaces faced with plaster, but with varying surface treatments. The relief-like preparation of the projection surfaces creates the impression of a plastic, three-dimensional space.