When Nevin Aladag demonstrates an interest in breakdance, she is not concerned with an exotic subculture, but with a non-verbal form of expression located between cultures – one which quite frequently displays its subtle theatrical qualities. The moment the dance is named after, the sudden break in the flow of movement, is referred to as a freeze, because the breakdancer remains in the pose he has adopted as if frozen into it. Nevin Aladag has photographed twelve such freezes, performed by professional breakdancers, and is now presenting these in Künstlerhaus Bethanien as a series of large-format photographs. The shots were taken on the streets, with a mass of passers-by or traffic in the background, meaning that – as a result of long exposure times – the static element of the freeze appears especially marked in contrast to the blurred, moving background. Here Nevin Aladag directs our attention to the borderline moment, the precise moment “when things become unclear”– the tiny thousandth of a second, the pause, in which reality becomes a daydream and the force of gravity seems to have been overcome.