WE ARE SKY'S THINGS
This site shares photographs exhibited at the South African National Arts Festival, June 2022 by collaborators Ingrid Schudel and Marc Schäfer.
Astro- and macro-photography draw our gaze into boundless spaces. From a speck in the universe - the Eastern Cape - Marc turns his camera to the cosmos; while Ingrid points hers to tiny earth-bound subjects. The exhibited images and mergers between the two hint at powerful forces, infinite scales of time and space, order and chaos, and metamorphic and evolutionary possibilities in our vast universe. Alongside the printed images, an associated film plays with colour, shape, pattern and movement between earth and sky. The film is accompanied by Jeroen Roffel’s crystal soundscapes.
We are grateful for the stories of the |xam people told to Lucy Lloyd by ||kabbo, in 1872 reminding us of our cosmic entanglements
– “We are sky’s things.”
Marc Schäfer and Ingrid Schudel, BIRTHING LIFE, 2022, Archival Giclée photographic prints, 30cm x 40cm
Marc Schäfer and Ingrid Schudel, SKY PICKLES, 2022, Archival Giclée photographic prints, 30cm x 40cm
Marc Schäfer and Ingrid Schudel, STARBURST, 2022, Archival Giclée photographic prints, 30cm x 40cm
Marc Schäfer and Ingrid Schudel, VANISHING POINT, 2022, Archival Giclée photographic prints, 30cm x 40cm
Marc Schäfer and Ingrid Schudel, COSMIC TENTACLES, 2022, Archival Giclée photographic prints, 30cm x 40cm
