The work, which is purely analogue with no digital manipulation, is at the intersection of photography and painting. Being not simply portraits, the works draw on the cultural history of artistic gestures. In a cross-over process she alters the chemical layers of the negative slides, by scratching, bleaching and drawing mirror-inverted onto the crystalline structure. Like a painter, Anita Gratzer adds and subtracts to the given materiality, creating vibrations and new perspectives that open up the possibility for the viewer to see deeper and surmise even more.