Katja Mater, film still uit Their Own Sweet Time, met beelden van Alphonse Van Besten uit de FOMU-collectie, 2025 © Katja Mater / courtesy LambdaLambdaLambda

FOMU invited visual artist Katja Mater (NL, b. 1979) to explore the museum’s collection and creates a selection around the theme of time. Mater designs unusual frameworks for the collection items and creates spatial installations with them. ​

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. ​

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. 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. ​

A Kaiserpanorama is a large round wooden cabinet that allows twenty-five people to view a series of stereoscopic photographs at the same time. When viewed through special stereoscopic viewers, the photographs appear three-dimensional. The photographs are housed in a wooden carrousel that is turned by a creaking mechanism.

Specifically for the Kaiserpanorama, Mater creates 50 new stereo photographs that play with language, spatiality and perception.

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