Money (Geld)

<p>Martina Sauter studied with Thomas Ruff at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and she has embraced her teacher’s occasional method of appropriating and transforming existing photographic material for new works. In a series of collages, Sauter combines stills of scenes from classic film noirs with photographs she makes or finds, installing them with a visible gap between the two planes. This work refers to a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 <em>Shadow of a Doubt</em> in which we first meet the villain (a serial murderer of rich widows), lying on a bed and smoking, with bills scattered on the rug below. Sauter has reproduced this shot along with a view that shows a similar rug, thus capitalizing on the doubling theme (a classic element of the uncanny) in the film.</p>