Back to the Marshes Myth, Method, Matter

Barbara Baert's texts situate themselves right on the threshold of image theory. They avoid the temptation of systematization. Instead, they focus on the specific 'dynamic of potentiality between the not-quite-yet but already-becoming' of images. Any theory of the image, as Barbara Baert's texts show, should do justice to this oscillation between emergence and dissolution - as unpredictable as the wind. Barbara Baert shows that writing about art should itself have an affinity to art.
Frank Fehrenbach, Laudatio on Barbara Baert's accession to the Aby Warburg Professorship on 9 May 2023