timeshift

The site-specific installation "timeshift" takes the visual logic of urban billboards as its starting point: pasting over, tearing, exposed layers, text fragments, and image remnants. Drawing on the Affichistes, Patricia Lambertus employs collage and décollage as techniques to make time, surface, and fragment visible.

In the art station, a waiting room in Wolfsburg's main train station, real material traces and simulated forms of demolition, collage, and décollage merge into a sprawling trompe-l'œil situation. The location itself becomes part of the work: transit, waiting, and the changing presence of passersby continuously shift the pictorial space.

Timeshift connects urban surface, city history, and projection. Wolfsburg's history as an immigrant and industrial city appears not as a linear narrative, but as a visual layering of photographs, found media, and fragments of Italian-influenced ideal landscapes. The work moves between actual demolition and constructed image, between memory, surface, and illusion.