Claudia Breitschmid (*1983, Aarau) is a visual artist working between photography, print-based processes, moving image, site-responsive installation, and text. Her practice explores how humans and their environments transform one another through research-driven projects that often include collaboration, material experiments, and archival work.
What remains of the rain


This work investigates puddles as transient formations that act as both archive and resonance body. The work takes photographic recordings of these ephemeral micro-waters as its point of departure and translates them into sculptural photo objects. Through enlargement, cutting and material transformation, the images are detached from a purely documentary function and re-enter space as situated fragments that include parts of their immediate surroundings.

Glossy, slightly domed surfaces echo the optical qualities of water, producing effects of reflection, translucency and depth. Installed on the floor, the work remains close to the ground, shifting the act of looking from a frontal to a bodily, spatial experience.

Rather than preserving a moment, the work focuses on what remains after disappearance: traces, residues, inscriptions. Landscape is approached not as a stable backdrop but as a constructed condition shaped by framing, scale and material decisions.


photo objects, UV print on canvas, reworked with biobased epoxy resin
various dimensions
2024
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