Katja Mater

Katja Mater (°1979, NL) focuses on the parameters of photography and film from a meta-perspective, using them as non-transparent media. By creating hybrids between different optical media, installation, and performance, Mater documents something that is often positioned beyond our human ability to see.

Interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, Mater mediates between time, space, perception, and our understanding of them; recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretation.

Next to a solo practice as a visual artist, Mater is involved in different collaborative projects, as editor of Girls Like Us Magazine since 2014 and as one of the founding members of Mothers & Daughters, a Lesbian* and Trans* Bar.

Katja Mater – HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA
A Reading, or An Invitation to Avoid Clock Time before, at and after 9 o’clock

• Reading on location, we gather @Fobrux at 8.30 am

On Sunday morning from 8h30 – 10h we gather near one of Katja Mater’s sundial in Buda to collectively read texts that invite us to rethink time. A breakfast will be foreseen. From 08u30-10u.

HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA consists of five single hour markings placed throughout Buda, transforming the area into a (part of a) large-scale sundial. Each part uses a number that was already present, giving it the additional task of telling (summer) time between march 20th and september 23rd. This work was made possible with the help of Hendrik Hollander and realised as part of the first iteration of Border Buda curated by Koi Persyn & Anna Laganovska in 2024.

In English