Ria Patricia Röder
Ria Patricia Röder (*1983, Verden, Germany) is a German-Portuguese visual artist. She studied in Karlsruhe, Vienna and Berlin where she earned her MFA from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). Röder received several grants, awards and residency scholarships, among others from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and CCA Andratx, Mallorca. Her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions, amongst others at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany; Sla307 Art Space,
New York City; Kunstsammlung Gera, Germany; Kunstverein Hannover, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe and Galerie de Zaal, the Netherlands. Ria Patricia Röder lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Link: www.patricia-roeder.com
Ria Patricia Röder: Insert, 55x40 cm, scanogram, archival pigment print on aludibond, 2018
Ria Patricia Röder works with scanography. She uses found objects and custom-made forms of paper or similar, which are placed on the glass surface of the scanner. She combines these „motifs“ with pre-scanned and printed out images of these (or other) objects to produce complex compositions of reality- and image-fragments. These fragments, which exist as the “material” of the image, are very deliberately arranged on the scanner glass. In addition, the images or printouts are sometimes deformed manually, in an analogue process. The chosen „motifs“ can appear in the final picture several times and in different variations, which Röder designates as „declinations“. The artist uses neither image editing software nor renderings, hence the final, single, scan marks the endpoint of the process. The resulting image has a
„photographic-representational“ appearance - indeed the exposure or scanning process can itself be understood as a „photographic“ process. However, in Röder‘s work, the depicted space of traditional „photography“ is defined by the distance between the scanner glass and the furthest point of the scanned motifs, and compressed (in real terms to approx. 30-50 cm), whereby only the motifs immediately in the foreground are in focus. The traditional, centrally organised, perspectival seeing-model and the idea of static projection are partially overridden by the moving „camera“ of the scanner.
Text: Michael Reisch
Ria Patricia Röder: Malapuana, 55x40 cm, scanogram, archival pigment print on aludibond, 2018
Ria Patricia Röder: Nazareno, 55x40 cm, scanogram, archival pigment print on aludibond, 2018
Ria Patricia Röder: Menina, 55x40 cm, scanogram, archival pigment print on aludibond, 2018