Das Signal – Ann-Kathrin Müller, Judith Engel

With her medium-format camera, Ann-Kathrin Müller takes us on a journey to a seemingly out-of-time seismological measuring station somewhere in eastern Germany. The black-and-white photographs showing the interior of the station and the deserted surroundings conjure up a diffusely haunting atmosphere. Accompanied by Judith Engel’s short prose pieces, a patchy dialogue between images and texts emerges in which the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction become blurred. In the setting of this opaque world, “The Signal” questions the unambiguity of purely rational and scientific world views, repeatedly encountering a phenomenon that accompanies both science and photography in their search for evidence: Blurriness.