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As the Eye Wanders retraces the pictorial transfigurations where memory and perception are interwoven on different planes. “Perception mirrors the premises of the external world, while memory reflects the internal world. The photographic images, as a vital transitional medium and metaphor, anchor and communicate perception and memory, and as that anchor, photography produces an infinite chain of associations that challenges the photographer’s eye and the viewer’s mind: seeing how two or more shapes in a picture, happening in the same space, have created rhythm in time,” states Rosemarie Zens.

"Reading" a landscape, according to Roland Barthes, means first of all perceiving it with the body and the memory – with the memory of the body . . . so childhood is the best way to get to know a country. In the end there is really only one country: the country of childhood. In 1945 Rosemarie Zens's mother escaped from Pomerania with her infant daughter, on a trek with countless other refugees. Today, Zens retraces this journey, searching for first and formative memories. Dream-like color landscapes are juxtaposed with fragments of family photos.

Photo series retracing the myths of legendary Route 66