News / Statement
| ::News:: Quasar Opening reception : Friday November 18th, 6:00 - 8:30pm Exhibition dates : November 18 - December 18, 2011 Ampersand International Arts 1001 Tennessee Street (at 20th. st.) San Francisco, California 94107 ::Statement:: An Image is Created in the Act of its Viewing Photography has the perceived ability to stop time—to capture it. In my photographs, however, I am more concerned with prolonging the moment before recognition. I rely on the believability of film projected onto paper to construct illusion. The elemental nature of photography—its play with surface and depth, filtered light producing color, and the slow mechanics of the analog—are inherent to my image-making process. Ultimately, I am interested in destabilizing the sense of reality and space that photographs often inhabit. My interest in photographing landscape is outside of the traditional practice of “capturing” what is real, permanent, or sublime. I use landscape—just as I employ analog methods—precisely because the illusion of reality is so strong. I am fascinated by the material relationship between the illusions that occur in the natural world and those that are produced—both in the act of photographing and in the re-constitution of those images when they are transferred to paper. Using a camera, I imagine the simultaneous impossibility of the abstract and the familiarity of the real, precariously combining to counter photography’s often-presumed objectivity. --Jessica Skloven, 2011 |
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