Julia Kindt

Time: Past and Present

I use photography as a medium to reflect on themes featuring in my research. The themes I explore through photography revolve around the tension between past and present. What dimensions of time are included in feelings of nostalgia and ideas of progress? How are old objects positioned in the present and how do they interact with their modern surroundings? Can we capture (in a picture/in writing) the fluctuation and ever-changing nature of time?

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The poetics of time has its own aesthetics. These pictures were taken at the old southern cemetery (Alter Südfriedhof) in Munich, Germany. The cemetery was first established as a burial ground for the victims of pestilence and is located just outside of the historic city centre. Founded in 1563, the cemetery was used until 1944 as a burial ground of Munich’s most distinguished honoraries, officials, and public servants (see the grave stone of the famous painter Carl Spitzweg). The cemetery is partly overgrown with vegetation, which turns it, above all, into a persisting monument of time and the transitoriness of all things human.

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