Reichstag 1-8

Sarah Friedlander
Photography
2018

Cardinal Hall, Third Floor

Sara Friedlander is a Northern California-based photographer and mixed-media artist. Though her primary medium is photography, she also explores painting, and installation, and often merges these mediums. For most of her artistic career, she was also a psychotherapist which has served as a foundational element of her work: “Mesmerized by illusion, reflection, the enigma of motion and the passage of time, my career in psychology has profoundly informed my art.” Friedlander utilizes photography to create a new visual perspective of objects in the outside world, and challenges the viewer’s preconceptions of form. In a style which she describes as “time-lapsed surrealism,” she blurs landscapes and deconstructs architecture - creating movement and fluidity from concrete, stable objects. In 2012, Sara Friedlander won the Annual International Competition at The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. 
 
These photographs were taken inside the Reichstag Dome in Berlin, which sits on top of the German Parliament building. The dome was designed to symbolically emphasize that the people are above the government, as was not the case during Nazism.
 
The dome and glass sphere with its mirrored column that reflects light into the chamber was designed by architect Norman Foster in 1995 to represent transparency in governance. Friedlander was drawn to the complex angularity and reflections in this public space as well as its intent, which mirrors her deeply held values.