Bethanien

Bethanien (1984-91) comprises a series of analytical views of the attic in which Appelt investigates the surface of wooden beams, and the interconnection of light, time, and space. He deliberately creates images that are not instantaneous; he experiments with extended and multiple exposures, sometimes with superposed negatives, recording a succession of states and creating the illusion of manifold dimensions in a single image. The installation of Bethanien photographs includes 26 images, each accompanied by a sheet of paper bearing the sentence "Die Katastrophe der Dinge ist ihre Realität"("The catastrophe of things is their reality") in a different language. source: CCA Montreal