Fiebertraum, 2024 Pigments, gesso, gouache, inkjet print on canvas, 100×150 cm © Tatjana Danneberg

The MEP Studio presents the first solo exhibition in France by the Austrian artist Tatjana Danneberg, whose practice combines photography and painting.

Through experimentation with materials and processes for transferring images to canvas, Tatjana Danneberg transforms her analog photographs taken from life into expressive paintings. Using inexpensive cameras, the artist seeks to extend casual memories by depicting loved ones, acquaintances, and everyday objects in familiar and often intimate shots. His technique of moving from photography to painting is quite complex. The images are first enlarged and inkjet printed onto sheets of plastic film. They are then painted with gesso, left to dry and re-wet in water to finally be separated from the sheet and transferred to the canvas. The final result is known once the sheet is removed from the canvas. Revealing fragments of objects, banal actions, or even the total absence of action, these shots, resembling amateur photography, are thus transfigured into a powerful pictorial gesture. The brushstrokes applied by the artist intuitively follow the composition of the photograph, adding movement, while obscuring part of the image.

Displayed from floor to ceiling, the works of Tatjana Danneberg exhibited at the Studio evoke torn posters covering urban space.

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