Egbert Mittelstaedt


Mittelstaedt uses slitscan photography to record a trace of his subject, when she moves her movement is recorded as a series of lines travelling across the image, a ghosting of her movement. This piece is quite effective visually, with good technical qualities and the movement and its recording become quite striking. The video is about the human body and its form, especially the way in which form can change, alter and move. The technique is used quite litterally to explore the movement of the body, much like the historic artists I have looked at, Mittelstaedt is recording movement itself in order to present us with a trace of where the body once was, this is refelected in the title, Unfolding as the movement of the model “unfolds” into a new form of the slitscan, where her body is warped into two dimensions, as if her skin has been unwrapped and presented as a flat object.