Susa Templin’s interest is directed toward space – on the one hand with its objective, architectonic structure and on the other as a setting for subjective experiences. Over the years, a concise photographic work has evolved from the cross-fading and permeation of these perceptual forms, manifest not only in individual photos and motif series but also in spatial installations, graphic sketches, and constructed models. In Templin’s current series of works Reflexive Spaces her photographic and sculptural exploration focuses on apartments and rooms. The artist grasps the interior as a storage medium lending expression to a universal, timeless space-memory and so representing ever similar, inner images. This is expressed in fragmentary shots of doors, windows and curtains, an unmade bed or a radio. Such photographic inventories of space are characterized by atmospheric coloration, partial blurring and multiple exposure of the motifs. A concrete reference to place is provided in the exhibition Room Service by massive, angular wall elements, which are concentrated into a white, self-contained space on the ground floor. The installation refers to a several-part photo work covering the walls; photos that Templin took from her studio window over a period of eight hours. This linkage of photography and installation is transformed once again on the upper floor, where Templin stands tall, frame-like constructions made from wooden slats in the exhibition space, combining them with a selection of her photos showing interiors.

Susa Templin lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt/Main.