Artworks ; Berlin by Diane Meyer

The 43 artworks in the exhibition are being shown to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, including artworks never before shown.
© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

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KLOMPCHING GALLERY is pleased to present Berlin, by artist Diane Meyer. Being shown for the first time in its entirety, the 43 artworks in the exhibition are being shown to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, including artworks never before shown.

Made over the course of seven years, the photographs trace the entire circa 96 mile path of the former Berlin Wall, taking in sites in the German capital’s city center, as well as the outskirts of the city, through suburbs and the countryside.

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

As an architectural structure, the Berlin Wall defined geopolitics between East and West for decades, influencing identity and allegiances on both sides of the structure. The tearing down of the wall became emblematic for a changing world order—with the absence of the structure, as impactful as when it stood. Meyer’s artworks in the exhibition are especially timely, as they resonates with the current political dialogue and divisiveness, surrounding the usefulness of a physical barrier in the US, both literal and symbolic. For many Germans under the age of thirty, the relationship with the wall and its place in their psyche, although an after-the-fact experience, continues to resonate. Meyer notes, “1989 wasn’t that long ago. The wall today is almost ghostlike—even though it isn’t there, you can still feel it.”

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross- stitch embroidery, sewn directly into the photograph. This stitching is a signature mark of the artist across her artworks. The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what

lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory.

“I am interested in the porous nature of memory as well as the means by which photography transforms history into nostalgic objects, that obscure objective understandings of the past.”

—Diane Meyer

While the artist was particularly interested in photographing locations with no visible traces of the wall itself, several of the photographs depict more than just the subtle clues of its existence—particularly some of the guard towers. Meticulously made, the artworks show Meyer’s mastery with integrating needlepoint into the photographic medium to breathtaking effect. With artworks ranging in size from only 5.5 to 16 inches across, the series invites close scrutiny regarding labor of the hand and the underlying concepts and narrative.

The Berlin series has been reproduced in numerous publications including Smithsonian magazine and recently featured in A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016).

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

About Diane Meyer

Diane Meyer (b. 1976) is an alumni of the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and gained her MFA from the University of California. Her work has been exhibited widely across the US and internationally. Artworks by Diane Meyer can be found in the collections of the Hood Museum, MoCP, University of Maryland and the George Eastman Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles, and is represented in the United States by Klompching Gallery.

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© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

© Diane Meyer/Courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

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