Ute Bartel Only Half A Picture oder: nur die halbe Wahrheit

In her artistic work, Ute Bartel uses photography to perceive and transform reality. She works with the eye of a sculptor; the camera is her most important tool for depicting everyday things, events and places. Photos become the formative material, because a significant part of the artistic work only begins after the photograph has been taken. Depending on how the special nature of the motif or object is to be expressed, further processing is carried out on the computer and in the studio. Shapes, colors, structures and physicality play a role with different weighting. Photographic collages, cut-outs and works that reach into the space are created, in which Ute Bartel also combines 'photo pieces' - as she calls the cut-out photographs with reference to their haptic quality - with other materials such as oilcloth blankets, plastic bags or straws. Familiar things and pictorial objects suddenly reveal unnoticed sides.