CHRONOTOPE (2003)
The installation CHRONOTOPE (2003) is a modern interpretation of the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), a prominent landscape painter in German Romanticism. He often painted figures standing with their back to the viewer, engrossed in the vast landscape which lies before both. Dominique Steiner placed a number of people in a similar position and had them stare at a series of contemporary landscapes. That invites the spectator to engage in the same reflection as on seeing a Friedrich painting: what are these persons thinking? What are they looking at? What would their face tell? This brings us into the same position as the persons we are looking at, and we become one with their meditation. We become engrossed in the installation, thereby stepping into another time and place.
