At the invitation of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Goldbach took over about 4,000 archive boxes that were discarded during the relocation of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne as part of the Artist Meets Archive project and installed them in the park of Burg Lede near Bonn. The artist documented the process of decay of the boxes there photographically in regular intervals - just as he had previously accompanied the relocation of the box contents by restorers in the rooms of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv.
The central element is the black archive cardboard of the RBA positive archive. On the one hand, he exposed the archive cardboard to a weathering process and documented this process photographically. On the other hand, he juxtaposed the process of decay with the actions and manual interventions of the team of restorers who carried out the rearrangement and thus built the future of the picture archive.
At the same time, the project takes the archive boxes out of their concrete functional context and into a poetic reflection: on the human labour (time) underlying the conservation of any archive and the entropic process of time passing that counteracts it. The format of the slide installation he has chosen brings into view the component that is no longer, or only partially, visible in the emptied archive boxes themselves: Their former photographic reference and content.
More information about the artist here: www.pgoldbach.de
21st May – 04th June 2021
Philipp Goldbach / Rheinisches Bildarchiv
Image Cycle
Kapelle am Gereonskloster
Recording: Damian Zimmermann. Edit: Silviu Guiman & Philipp Goldbach © Philipp Goldbach / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Philipp Goldbach, Burg Lede, Januar 2021 from Internationale Photoszene Köln on Vimeo.
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