Ingrid Dorner - Zimmer23 & Merveille

Zimmer23 is a photographic series created inside a closed room, exploring states of withdrawal, tension and inner vibration.
Merveille completed in 2025, opens onto larger, unstable spaces, landscapes, elements, and horizons that seem to breathe or shift.

Although conceived separately, these two bodies of work gradually revealed themselves as connected. Their images do not oppose one another. They circulate, resonate, and sometimes feel as if they come from the same inner movement.

Zimmer23-01, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 49,2 x 50,3 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille02, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48,2 x 46,1 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-04, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48,4 x 48,4 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille03, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,5 x 48,4 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-05, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46 x 46 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille04, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,9 x 45,9 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-08, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48 x 46,5 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23 & Merveille exist as two zones of the same motion. Not separate places, but different ways a sensation can appear, compressed or open, shadowed or vibrant, inward or projected.

Nothing indicates whether one moves from one space to the other. Perhaps nothing moves at all. Perhaps the shift happens elsewhere. Some images may be lived, others imagined, or maybe the distinction doesn’t hold.

Merveille05, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,9 x 47 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-11, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48x48,5 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille06, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,9 x 47 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-13, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48 x 48,7 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille07, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,6 x 44,8 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille08, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,9 x 46,1 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-06, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 47 x 45 cm - Edition of 3

Ambiguity isn’t an effect here, it is the condition of the work. The heart of this diptych is neither the room nor the landscape, but the space that connects them.

Zimmer23 & Merveille suggest that our gaze is never neutral: it carries our dreams, our fractures, our lingering traces. And sometimes, what we see tells more about us than about the world itself.

Merveille09, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,5 x 47,9 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille10, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,5 x 47,9 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-09, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48,5x48,3 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille11, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,2 x 47,9 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-14, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48 x 48,7 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille12, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,8 x 48 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille13, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,2 x 44,7 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-02, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46 x 48 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille14, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,8 x 45,1 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille15, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 45,8 x 49,3 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-07, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46 x 48,7 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille16, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48 x 48,1 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-03, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 47 x 48 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille17, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 44,8 x 48,3 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-04, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 48,4 x 48,4 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille18, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46 x 47 cm - Edition of 3

Zimmer23-10, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process- 48 x 48,5 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille19, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46,2 x 48,2 cm - Edition of 3

Merveille20, 2025 - Silver-gelatin print. Analog darkroom process - 46,2 x 46,7 cm - Edition of 3