Emotionally and physically precarious encounters form the crux of many of Reimann’s investigations. Whether surreptitiously inserting her own images into an existing archive or joining in a protagonist’s outré behavior, Reimann partakes in acts that can feel counter-instinctual, at least initially, but which create intimately observed and deeply empathic portraits of her protagonists. Her most recent investigation centers around H., an amateur photographer Reimann encountered on Flickr who drives around Lower Saxony taking photographs of pylons interspersed with those of female subjects covered in mud and cow excrement. Reimann reached out to H., beginning a correspondence with him, and ultimately accompanying him on a ride. Her relationship with him forms an open storyline that precludes facile interpretation or analysis. Hers is a work that refutes binaries or any pretense toward epistemological or personal closure, instead making way for more nuanced and complex understandings of trauma, eroticism, truth, and personhood.

As an experiment to activate the trust, mutual consent and therapeutic notions accompanying the making of the film we created a site specific installation: a hole in the ground, two meters deep, filled with cow manure.
The images, printed on fabric, are documentation from a non-public happening held briefly before the exhibition. They were accompanied by a sound piece that combined the sound of electric lines with distant mooing and human breathing.