Blue Screen #4: Katja Mater

The 4th edition of Blue Screen will shine a light on the pluridiciplinary work of Katja Mater. Katja Mater is a visual artist, filmmaker, editor, organizer and educator. Her practice focuses on the parameters of photography and film as non-transparent media. By creating hybrids between photography, film, drawing, performance and installation Mater documents something that is often positioned beyond our human ability to see. Interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, by mediating between time, space, perception and our understanding of them, while recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretation.

During the Blue Screen #4 evening we will show a selection of Katja Mater’s work, focussing on the notion of time and space. ‘Two Intersecting Loops of Silence’ (2022) is a prototype Mater made of a vinyl record that makes audible the intersection of two loops of silence. For the 16 mm film installation ‘As Much Time as Space’ (2017), Katja Mater made recordings of the house of modernist artist couple Nelly and Theo van Doesburg and combines architectural details of the house with her own drawings. Projected as a split screen, we look at a play between past and present, which every once in a while merges to form a new reality, providing a surreal time experience.In the second part of the evening, Katja will share with us an insight into the current project she is working on.

In dialogue with Katja Mater’s work, we will show films by Els Van Riel, Sarah Pucill and Maika Garnica & Ans Mertens.

Blue Screen is produced by Level Five and hypernuit with the help of the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF).