Since 2020, the Leipzig-based artist Sophia Kesting has been working with FOTOHOF>ARCHIVE’s holdings at its invitation, developing strategies for discussing and appropriating historical materials used in the medium of photography. It is not the artistic positions at the center of the FOTOHOF>ARCHIVE that serve Sophia Kesting as material for her artistic research project.

Rather, she goes to the edges of the collection when she literally twists and turns the images of a long-historic slide archive for the mediation of photographic technology and brings to light and questions media conditions and historical gender roles through her artistic, performative interventions.