New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo – whatever megacity we find ourselves in: the symbols of money and power protrude far into the sky, their facades dazzle; they seem transparent and yet distant at the same time. Marina Herrmann, an artist who lives and works in Cologne, has visited financial centres throughout the globalised world and has put together the photographic results into single collection.

They in no way serve to realistically capture squares and buildings. Rather, the artist pays special attention to subliminal, incident elements, which overlap into individual patterns, structures and colours. Her photographs are condensates and focal points, moving and mirrored random-extracts, whose parameters are further transformed and fanned out by Marina Hermann.

The starting photographs, which have been subtly remastered digitally and which are free, picturesque modules, are finally combined to form an installation of intermedial wooden tableaus. This is how a "fractal painting of the urban" is created.