A chat with the art gallery owner who has been dealing with avant-garde for at least three decades, who wanted to be a photographer, and whose debut is linked to the 1980s and an abandoned factory.
The first time I came across an image of Alina Maria Frieske, it was in a magazine. It looked like a painting. I turned the page and moved on. Then I realised that it couldnât be a painting, because the magazine I was leafing through was dedicated exclusively to photography. I went back and, reading the text that accompanied the pictures of Frieskeâs work, I found out that I had been fooled by my mind.
Through her meticulous practice, Alina Maria Frieske works blurring the lines between photography and painting: in her collage, she assembles hundreds of fragments taken from various photographs in order to create new images and unique scenes. In so doing, Frieske pulls the strings of our perception on several levels and explores the way we approach and understand images.