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Crystals have long been credited with healing and protective powers. The passage from the realm of spirituality to that of the occult appears seamless. Occultus – the hidden – names experiences that lie beyond rational explanation. Phenomena that hover between worlds. In the late nineteenth century, occultism enjoyed a fresh boom: séances, table-turning and spiritualist experiments coexisted with modern image technologies such as photography and X-ray imaging, which promised to render the invisible visible. Mediums, many of them women, assumed a central role as intermediaries between this world and the next. The hope of providing technical proof of paranormal phenomena materialised in the so-called ectoplasms: body-like substances that seemed to emanate from mediums and were captured photographically. The body itself became an interface between spheres, a surface on to which the invisible could be projected.
Tina Kohlmann’s practice operates precisely within this charged field between…
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Crystals have long been credited with healing and protective powers. The passage from the realm of spirituality to that of the occult appears seamless. Occultus – the hidden – names experiences that lie beyond rational explanation. Phenomena that hover between worlds. In the late nineteenth century, occultism enjoyed a fresh boom: séances, table-turning and spiritualist experiments coexisted with modern image technologies such as photography and X-ray imaging, which promised to render the invisible visible. Mediums, many of them women, assumed a central role as intermediaries between this world and the next. The hope of providing technical proof of paranormal phenomena materialised in the so-called ectoplasms: body-like substances that seemed to emanate from mediums and were captured photographically. The body itself became an interface between spheres, a surface on to which the invisible could be projected.
Tina Kohlmann’s practice operates precisely within this charged field between…
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