Marko Zink,
The View, 2017
analog panoramic photograph
direct print on bendable PVC panel
90 x 220 cm
Edition: 3 + 2 AP
Location: view of Mauthausen from afar, looking southwest toward the former concentration camp
Technique: The negative was boiled, perforated, and folded before exposure.
Concept: The title The View is ambiguous: On the one hand, one looks at Mauthausen from a hunter’s blind; on the other, a black blotch stares out at the viewer. Could this be history, its pupil trained on us? Or the reverse: is it the viewer who is just now perceiving history’s blind spot?