Territorial Interventions

Ina Schoof and Ana Baumgart are two German photographers and media artists who are based in Berlin but spend a lot of time travelling. The Avant/Garde Diaries met the two artists in the Sahara Desert, a truly miraculous place where the two conducted an art project. Ina and Ana say that there is no more unknown territory to explore, so they decided to construct some themselves.

They made a fishing net, took it out of its regular context and into the Sahara Desert, where the net is an alien object. The two photographers capture people’s reaction and place the net itself in this unconventional setting as a kind of art-installation. Ana and Ina say: “Through the combination of differences—each one being common in itself—the intermediate can occur; something new, something unknown. It’s about constructing new territory.”

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