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...Franziska Peter tells us both her and our own stories, allowing us to remember them, to experience new ones, and to continue them into the future, ultimately protecting us from experiencing their otherwise inevitable endings.
She gives us the opportunity to retain things, feelings and places that have long since passed by affording them a space among the present. Indeed, collective memories are often the only means by which one can affirm the existence of one′s own past and acknowledge its true significance. With her work, Peter provides the beholder with a moment of self-affirmation and the opportunity to bridge the gap between the past and the present.
In her own words, Franziska Peter commands the ability to remember with narrative immediacy and yet retain an important sense of distance from things past
. She suspends individual and collective memory against the background of the present time and thereby manages to create something novel and acutely genuine.
translated excerpt from Open End - Franziska Peterby Juliane Bethge (Art Mediator)