Photo artist Johanna Diehl only travels to selected places and utilizes a plate camera after extensive research and setting of themes. The former student of Timm Rautert and Tina Bara at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig as well as of Christian Boltanski and Jean Marc Bustamante in Paris always finds images from the point of view of the present which state what was, what is and what could be. Like a palimpsest, her sensitive works give an idea of time and simultaneously remain within the realms of possibility. The exhibition and catalogue present Diehl's most recent group of works "Alienation", a new approach to inherited war traumas. Text: Katja Blomberg, Annette Tietenberg