​Katja Mater and the FOMU Collection - No Longer Not Yet

​Katja Mater is a visual artist, filmmaker, editor and teacher working between Amsterdam and Brussels. Mater’s artistic practice is focused on the boundaries of optical media and combines various disciplines such as photography, film, drawing, performance and installation. 

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Mater investigates aspects that are often beyond the limits of human eyesight, thus offering another view of the world by showing how photography and film, for example, capture things differently from the human eye. Mater plays on notions of time, space and perception. ​

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The exhibition No Longer Not Yet allows you to experience ‘time’ in a variety of ways: from solar time and the rhythm of the body to times of remembrance and asynchronous, cosmic, or even invisible time. ​

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Mater frames the works, their (anonymous) makers, and the subjects depicted in the photographs with care and precision. Mater points to elements that are often overlooked or forgotten, such as a message written on the back of a photograph. 

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Meanwhile Mater also creates new works inspired by objects from the museum’s collection, including one of the FOMU collection’s highlights: the restored Kaiserpanorama. ​

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Specifically, for the Kaiserpanorama Mater creates 50 new stereo photographs that play with language, spatiality and perception. The Kaiserpanorama is a stereoscopic viewing cabinet from 1905 that introduced mass audiences to a photographic 3D spectacle. 

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Up to 25 persons can take a seat on stools around the viewing cabinet to experience the magic of three-dimensional images. ​

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