Aura of a Place
Photographic Installation, 2024

Three objects, 130–180 cm diameter, 130–180 cm height
Steel ring frames, digital print on textile, LED lights

Presented at Scattered But There
Master Contemporary Arts Practice HKB Festival
21–26 June 2024, Dachstock Krone, Biel

Aura of a Place is a photographic installation consisting of three illuminated, human-scale objects. It is based on photographs of everyday scenes from Bern and Biel, in which traces of human presence remain visible.

The artist treats photography as a mutable material: through risograph printing, enlargement, and transfer onto textile, the source image is transformed. Steel ring constructions and integrated lighting produce objects in which the image becomes spatial and physically perceptible.

The project explores how a place is experienced and remembered. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, the artist understands aura as something perceptible and recallable. Memory is not a document, but a shifting process: it filters, emphasizes, and omits — opening an intimate space in which the aura of a place remains tangible.