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type: concept
title: Collage and Decollage
tags: [photography, artistic-method, nature]
related: [media-lab-lectures]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_bildende_kunst_aktivitaeten_medialab_lectures.md"]
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# Collage and Decollage

In the context of contemporary fine arts, specifically the work of Anett Stuth, **collage** and **decollage** are used as complementary methods to reflect on the relationship between civilization and nature.

## Methodology
- **Collage:** The assembly of historical and current image fragments of nature to create new relationships and reflections on the present civilization.
- **Decollage:** The removal of "superfluous" information from large-format photographs of plants and animals, leaving behind "silent witnesses" of vanishing diversity.

The interplay between these two methods creates "time loops" (Zeitschleifen) that open new conceptual spaces for viewing the sublimity and destruction of nature.
