In her photographic works and video installations, Düsseldorf-based photo and video artist Gudrun Kemsa explores the representation of space, time, and movement. She focuses on public, mostly urban spaces such as streets and squares, where she documents the unfolding of events. The images she captures around the world reveal the influence of time on perception and the dynamization of the static pictorial space. Time expresses itself through movement, and the energetic power of light becomes a central motif. Gudrun Kemsa’s works include viewers as subjects of observation and prompt them to engage in an active form of reception.

“The sudden sensation of moving oneself sharpens one’s attention to the frame of reference of cinematic and real space, relativizes the awareness of one’s own presence in actual space and real time, and ultimately emphasizes the physicality of seeing.” (Martin Hochleitner)

In the exhibition at the Salzburg Museum, Gudrun Kemsa presents her newly developed video series titled “Moving Portraits.” Kemsa “accompanies” Salzburg cultural figures such as Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler, the Abbot of St. Peter’s, Korbinian Birnbacher, Gabriele Ramsauer, director of the Mozart Museums, and others through their respective institutions.