For her show at The Ravestijn gallery, Eva Stenram explores her use of found images and what it means to be looking at them. ‘Offcut’ consists of three works that all combine the photographs with three-dimensional installation. As in her previous work, Stenram uses found vintage pin-up photographs from which she makes new images. Central to this exhibition are the fabrics seen in each of the found pin-up pictures: thus attention is drawn to the background and surrounding details of the image, rather than to its ‘object’, a woman. The fabrics are rendered tangible in the material space of the gallery, both disrupting and expanding the narrative that the found image originally implied. These new fabrics incorporate and repeat photographic characteristics such as foreshortening, as well as the creases and folds in the fabric that was photographed many years ago.
Eva Stenram, Offcut
September 10 – October 22, 2016
The Ravestijn Gallery
Westerdoksdijk 603-A
1013 BX Amsterdam
Holland
