Barbara Eitel

How do the perception and experience of a space differ?
I asked myself this question in the winter of 1990, whilst attending the nightly vigil outside the US airbase in Frankfurt am Main during the First Gulf War. What struck me in particular was the hustle and bustle, the constant coming and going. We were not part of it, and yet we were there. This created a peculiar, surreal atmosphere.
This shaped my view of spaces and places. I want to understand what lies at the heart of a temporary spatial condition and to respond to it respectfully.
My interventions are not self-contained works of art. There is an interplay between the space, visual sequences and the individual experience of each viewer.