Barbara Probst works with multiple images of a single scene, taken at the same time using several synchronized cameras. This approach breaks down the viewer鈥檚 singularity 鈥 it is not clear where the viewer is located within the given situation, which viewpoint is 鈥渉is鈥.
Probst essentially engages in a sophisticated violation of the viewer鈥檚 privacy. On the other hand, in so doing she offers multiplies the moment of astonishment that we feel when admiring a photograph that has captured the 鈥渄ecisive moment鈥 that we have known since the time of the legendary Henri Cartier-Bresson. The exhibition Total Uncertainty presents some 25 photographic series from the artist鈥檚 long-term project Exposures, including the initial Exposure #1 from 2000 as well as more recent works.