IN SITU: Michèle Matyn – Breathing holes
(c)image: M HKA
Dropstein #2, #5, #7, #8, #4, #1, 2014
Photography
, 155 x 155 cm
digital print on baryt
The cluster of works titled Dropstein (derived from the German: Tropfsteinhöhle) developed out of a journey to the stairs of the Bronze Age city of Mycenae in Greece. It comprises a series of photos and a performance, based on stalactite forms inside caves. The work symbolises the idea that you become what you experience, like the way stalactites gradually grow through the flow of mineral deposits in water that build on top of the old ones. The stalactite images resemble stairs and passageways leading into the depths of caves. They were subsequently used in the Dropstein performance, for which the images were turned into a costume.
