Sinje Dillenkofer : DCV : 9783969121108 : 3969121108 : 20 Sep 2022 : Sinje Dillenkofer' s (b. Neustadt a.d.W., 1959) body of work ARCHIVES VIVANTES inquires into the idea of the ? archive,? harnessing the means of visual art to allow us to see and perceive what the archive does not reveal. With staged photographs that combine conceptual rigor with a wide spectrum of creative techniques and devices, Dillenkofer' s pictorial essay turns the spotlight on specimens, artifacts, graphic art, and writings compiled by the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769? 1859) and the ornithologist Carlo von Erlanger (1872? 1904). Examining the archive as a model of nature and reality as well as a mirror of ? human nature,? the artist develops compositional ideas inspired by the peculiar features of the objects in the collections in visual analogies, pictorial spaces, and spatial compositions.