Kümei Kirschmann

Visual artist and experimental photographer specializing in solarigraphy, a technique that lies at the core of her practice, in dialogue with cyanotype and other non-conventional analog processes such as chemigrams and pinhole photography. Through the construction of handmade cameras, often built from recycled materials, she investigates the relationship between light, time, chance, and environment. Her practice is grounded in an intuitive and experimental approach, where accident, prolonged exposure, and material transformation actively shape the formation of the image. She works through tactile and organic processes, understanding materials as active agents capable of acting, mutating, and producing images beyond the artist’s total control. Interested in photographic materiality and unpredictability as a creative force, her work proposes an experience of slow time and an expansion of the boundaries of the photographic medium.