Christiane Zschommler

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  • 1. While It Floats, since 2026
    • 2. Until It Ends, since 2025
      • 3. Forgotten Doctrine, since 2024
      • Faux Diamonds, 2024
        • History Overwritten, 1989/2025
          • Pavlov's Children, 2024
            • Counting The Tanks, 2025
              • Weißer Regen ( White Rain), 2024
                • Friedenskinder I, 2024
                  • Friedenskinder II, 2025
                    • 4. We Are All In This Together 2020-2024
                    • Turning The Tide, 2020/2021
                      • 84 Square Metres, Flooating, 2020-2023
                        • Play Your Part, 2020-2023
                          • The Promise of Spring, 2020/2022
                            • Take It On The Chin, 2020-2021
                              • Rules Are Rules, 2020-2022
                                • One Way Road to Freedom, 2021-2023
                                  • Without Consequences, 2020/2024
                                    • 5. On Becoming An Immigrant 2016-2020
                                    • Project Fear, 2019
                                      • The Will Of The People, 2016-2020
                                        • It Is Just A Place I Stay In, 2016-2020
                                          • The Way It Is, Summer 2016 to Spring 2020
                                            • 6. When The Power Has Gone 2018/2024
                                            • File 1214/87, 2018
                                              • Beyond Orwell, 2018
                                                • Archiving Power, 2018/2024
                                                  • KO71, 2018
                                                    • Die Wunderbaren Jahre, 2018
                                                      • 7. A Notion Of Fragmentation, 2016/2023
                                                        • 8. Hiraeth, 2016
                                                          • 9. Early work, 1998: Made in Germany
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                                                            • Artiststatement, 2026
                                                            • Reflection on my works 2016-2026

                                                            While It Floats, since 2026 Work in progress

                                                            This project places a photographic print onto the surface of water and records its interaction with that condition over time. The same image is used repeatedly while the surrounding system changes. The source remains constant; the condition shifts.

                                                            Water is approached not simply as an environment, but as an image-producing surface. It generates reflections, distortions, shifting light, and layered depths. The work brings two image systems into contact: the fixed photographic image and the unstable optical behaviour of water.

                                                            The camera does not remain fixed; viewpoint, distance, and framing shift with each encounter. The photograph is often only partially visible—submerged, cut by the waterline, or fragmented through reflection. Each image records a situated encounter in which visibility depends on position, surface, and light.

                                                            The work extends an ongoing inquiry into photography as a system shaped by conditions. Here, the image is not only observed but immersed, and its visibility is continuously reconfigured.
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