Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present a new photographic installation by Daniel Joseph Martinez. I am Ulrike Meinhof or (someone once told me time is a flat circle) represents a mode of historic radicalism interpreted through images where, as a process historicizing the present, the imaginary, symbolic, and real become interwoven through a process of confrontation. Martinez's photographs of the Inner German border of West Berlin, taken during his 2016 American Academy residency in Berlin, re-map the psychogeography of that time, and place, through the usage of iconic images of Ulrike Meinhof. These images, representing her life in various stages, include a classically styled portrait of her as a young girl; a formal photograph in the professional stage of her life; and the coroner photograph of her dead body. Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1934-1976) was a German left-wing militant who co-founded, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF) in 1970 after previously working as a journalist for the left-wing magazine konkret. In 1972, she was arrested and charged with numerous murders as well as the formation of a criminal association. Before the trial concluded in 1976, Meinhof was found hanged in her prison cell. It is worth noting that in the year leading up to her arrest, Germany was in chaos; starting with the 1972 Munich Olympics, Berlin was the first properly televised world crisis. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until 1989. It had a total length of 103 miles (166 km), and there was a deeply staggered system of barriers. During the two coldest months of his Berlin-based residency, Martinez cycled the wall perimeter, which remains present through both official and unofficial markers. At various locations he photographed himself in the geographically specific yet seemingly ambiguous locations bearing medieval standards outfitted with images of Meinhof. The resulting photographs represent varied political, economic, and social spheres condensed in one very small space: the totality of the 80 locations photographed; Martinez's performative act of traveling East to West; the specificities of the German landscape in relation to and by German light; the schisms between physical and psychological borders; personal and collective accountability to a shared past. I am Ulrike Meinhof or (someone once told me time is a flat circle) marks the 40th anniversary of the RAF's 1977 armed struggle operations, known as "German Autumn", which began with the abduction of industrialist and ex-Nazi party member Hanns-Martin Schleyer.