Describing places or situations through its facts, it can become a web that branches off into the tiniest twigs and all directions. Like in a thread, associations are interwoven with each other and become partially absurd. Describing something with pictures means to collect fragments, lift them from their context and reassemble them. I am interested not in the immediately concrete, but in that which can be detached from the given. Places where contradictions come together. Pictures that explode the surface. The beauty of ballerinas makes a lot of girls dreaming of their life, a world full of mystery and fascination. But the actual lived stereotype in the self choosen gilded cage in the theater retrieves desillusioning banalities and routines as well as psychic hyperesthesia due to powerfull and deep passions My work „ No shoes to dance with“ is about the twilight zone of the in general romantic stereotype of ballett dancers at the theatre. The photographed protagonists are involved in their particular action, at the moment, where they are in between their real life and their stage life, which makes it easy to read our own stories into the pictures. I was looking for pictures which can be read like a written sentence. These pictures contain real moments which through tiny changes can become a momentary staging. As narratives create pictures, arrangements of pictures can create narratives. From these connected single pictures, a play or a piece of our time can emerge. In my work, I look for pictures which contain a kind of theatrical reality. Not in the form of a drama, but as a staging chanced upon. Reality works as a setting and a stage of the pictures. Maybe such pictures can describe a situation for the time being.
Anna Katharina Zeitler is a fine art photographer based in Berlin. Her work investigates the nature of transition and the relation between dream an reality. After receiving her BFA from the Academy of Photographic Design in Munich (Fachakademie für Fotodesign) in 2003 she moved to New York City to pursue her work. Between 2006 and 2010 she received five grants to live and work in Chile, Spain and India. Her photography has been exhibited in solo and group shows at various international venues.
