Sinje Dillenkofer's photography analyses and reveals social structures, values and images of nature.
Questions of individuality and authenticity, and their reproducibility, are posed through photosequences, serial photography, and typological studies.
Clichées, advertising transfers and quotations, for example, appear to be replacements for life and genuine energy.
Greatly enlarged fragmentary images of people, animals, and natural objects arrive through the combination of their structural and colour composition and the carefully chosen materials and framing, at a sensibility which is more painterly than photographic. This sensibility, together with images at once abstract and symbolically loaded, allows a multiplicity of readings of the works.
Sinje's works are included in many museum collections in Germany and in the V&A in London.
Her work is currently exhibited at Beneath the Surface, 200 rarely-shown photographic works from the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographs Collection.