{"id":180413,"date":"2026-11-10T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.eikon.at\/?p=180413"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:50:50","slug":"magazine-134-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.eikon.at\/en\/magazine-134-135\/","title":{"rendered":"#134-135 Into Darkness | Das Unschaubare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Paris<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”5″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”6″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”243569″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”7\/12″ uncode_shortcode_id=”658435″][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-123448″ type=”carousel” medias=”180417″ gallery_back_color=”color-xsdn” carousel_lg=”1″ carousel_md=”1″ carousel_sm=”1″ gutter_size=”3″ media_items=”media|lightbox|original,caption” carousel_type=”fade” carousel_interval=”10000″ carousel_hover=”yes” carousel_navspeed=”1000″ carousel_loop=”yes” carousel_dot_position=”left” stage_padding=”0″ single_style=”dark” single_overlay_color=”color-jevc” single_overlay_opacity=”1″ single_overlay_visible=”yes” single_overlay_anim=”no” single_text_visible=”yes” single_text_anim=”no” single_image_anim=”no” single_v_position=”bottom” single_padding=”0″ single_text_reduced=”yes” single_meta_custom_typo=”yes” single_meta_weight=”300″ single_border=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”108487″ gallery_back_color_type=”uncode-palette”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”1″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_visibility=”yes” medium_width=”0″ mobile_visibility=”yes” mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/12″ uncode_shortcode_id=”521940″][vc_custom_heading text_color=”accent” heading_semantic=”div” text_size=”fontsize-161209″ text_weight=”400″ text_transform=”uppercase” text_height=”fontheight-684119″ text_space=”fontspace-210350″ uncode_shortcode_id=”898700″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]MAGAZINE[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text_color=”accent” heading_semantic=”div” text_size=”fontsize-160000″ text_weight=”400″ text_transform=”uppercase” text_height=”fontheight-684119″ text_space=”fontspace-210350″ uncode_shortcode_id=”147271″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]2026\/11[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″ el_class=”maxpx1200displaynone”][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”custom” text_height=”fontheight-357766″ uncode_shortcode_id=”264884″ heading_custom_size=”clamp(1.3rem, 1rem + 1.4vw, 2.2rem)”]EIKON #134-135[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”custom” uncode_shortcode_id=”830591″ heading_custom_size=”clamp(2.2rem, 1.6rem + 3vw, 4rem)”]INTO DARKNESS | DAS UNSCHAUBARE<\/p>\n

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Authors: Thomas Ballhausen | Anja Bohnhof | Kristin Dittrich | Bettina Egger | Patrizia Feichter | Wolfgang Giegler | Esther Heltschl | Simone Obretenova | Walter Seidl | David Spittle | Gudrun Zacharias.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”108766″]Languages<\/strong> | German \/ English
\nFormat<\/strong> | 280 x 210 mm
\nISBN<\/strong> | 978-3-904083-30-0
\n144 pages
\nPrice:<\/strong> \u20ac 18,00 (incl. 10% VAT)<\/p>\n

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FOCUS:
\nIN THE NAME OF JUSTICE \u2013 LUCINDA DEVLIN: THE OMEGA SUITES \u2013 Gudrun Zacharias
\nSTRANGE LIGHT \u2013 Thomas Ballhausen & David Spittle
\nTHE SOUND OF FEAR \u2013 Simona Obretenova
\nAPPARENT FINDINGS \u2013 Anja Bohnhof
\nMAPPING MONSTERS \u2013 Thomas Ballhausen<\/p>\n

PORTFOLIO:
\nJOSEP MARIA DE LLOBET \u2013 Patrizia Feichter
\nG\u00d6RAN GNAUDSCHUN \u2013 Gudrun Zacharias
\nBERIT SCHNEIDEREIT \u2013 Esther Heltschl
\nPATRICK TOPITSCHNIG \u2013 Gudrun Zacharias
\nDAS SZARKOWSKI-PRINZIP \u2013 a New Event for the Future of Photography in Vienna \u2013 Kristin Dittrich<\/p>\n

EXHIBITIONS:
EVA SCHLEGEL \u2013 FALLING UP \u2013 Wolfgang Giegler
ERIC ASAMOAH \u2013 AS OUR HEARTS BOW \u2013 Patrizia Feichter
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARGOT PILZ! \u2013 Simona Obretenova
OTTO HAINZL \u2013 Wolfgang Giegler
EIKON AWARD OFF BRATISLAVA
PARIS FOTO
\nPUBLICATIONS
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
NEW RELEASES
TIPS & NEWS
CONTRIBUTORS
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With every new image, our knowledge of the world grows, but not necessarily our understanding of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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EDITORIAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Readers!<\/p>\n

Not everything that we see is truly revealed to our gaze. And not everything that frightens us is visible. Sometimes the uncanny lies exactly within what is familiar, in the seemingly harmless, in that which images leave unsaid. Under the title Into Darkness \u2013 The Unseeable, the current issue of EIKON explores the diverse manifestations of horror and, with that, also the limits of perception where the visible shifts into the uncertain.
\nIn her series The Omega Suites, Lucinda Devlin reveals exactly how disturbing that, which an image does not show, can be. In it, she documented the execution chambers of U.S. prisons during the 1990s. In their oppressive austerity, the desolate interiors reveal a violence which remains invisible.
\nIn conversation with EIKON, Devlin reflects, three decades later, on a work which would no longer be possible today and whose images take on an uncomfortable relevance amid a political climate in which the death penalty is yet again being aggressively wielded as an expression of state power. On the other hand, the crime scene photographs of Joel Sternfeld and Eva Leitolf, which Anja Bohnhof explores in Apparent Findings, show how deceiving the first glance can be. Behind the supposed harmlessness of everyday places and landscapes lurk stories of the abysses of human nature. Only through the accompanying texts does the unseeable emerge.
\nBut not everything that is uncanny can be disintegrated into words. In conversation with Thomas Ballhausen, the filmmaker and poet David Spittle navigates the intermediate zones of liminality where familiar orders are disrupted and the monstrous becomes the starting point of new insights. In The Sound of Fear, Simona Obretenova illustrates how fear can take shape even where the image falls silent. Her exploration of film soundtracks reveals how sounds can open up spaces of threat and make the eerie immediately sensible on a bodily level.
\nBeyond the thematic focus, the portfolios of Patrick Topitschnig, Berit Schneidereit, G\u00f6ran Gnaudschun and Josep Maria de Llobet unfold unique artistic perspectives. Schneidereit\u2019s multi-faceted image spaces defy unambiguous perception with their overlays and transparent structures, while de Llobet takes the long-hidden interior of the former Modelo prison in Barcelona into the public space with large-format photographs displayed on its outer wall. This versatility is also an expression of a two-hundred-year history in which photography has constantly reinvented itself and transformed the way we view the world. The upcoming Paris Photo promises a spectacular journey through this development by bringing together historical positions as well as contemporary and digital experiments. Yet a contradiction remains despite the expansion of possibilities: with every new image, our knowledge of the world grows, but not necessarily our understanding of it. Precisely the images of the uncanny bring this discrepancy to light. Their horror does not lie only in what they show us, but also in the unsettling certainty that the visible never tells the whole story.<\/p>\n

Gudrun Zacharias,
\nEIKON, November 2026<\/p>\n

THANK YOU TO
\nAll Experts for their Statements <\/p>\n

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN
\nMartin Hassler<\/p>\n

TRANSLATION
\nUr\u0161ka Longer<\/p>\n

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