Vera Lutter forges a peculiar acquiescence to the world that escapes one’s grasp and must be clarified. Using the negative and camera obscura, through an effect of distancing, the artist pierces the skin of reality by creating nocturnal poetics.
The photographer generates a new kind of nudity which she gathers and disperses as astonishing narrative dust. Often monumental in size, her photographs undergo extremely long exposures (sometimes several days). They are created using cameras the size of the images. It is therefore at times necessary to use shipping containers as dark rooms. The ephemeral and the movement dissolve in the time it takes to take a shot, preserving sometimes ghostly figures. The reality is joined by hybridizations which appear both chimeric and fluid.
The urban landscape and architecture appear to fold and unfold. Every photograph becomes a scene and its reversal. There is also a distancing of the subject through the play of shadows and light and an apprenticeship of the enigma through a precise attention to the infinitesimal.
Far from any archaic visions, Lutter’s work is a lyrical flight. It transmutes reality into the music of silence. What does it matter if it rains in the gardens of the towns? It is not the case within the dwellings of the photographs: the viewer feels at home .
EXHIBITION
Vera Lutter
From May 19th to July 29th, 2016
Galerie Xippas
Rue des Sablons 6
1205 Geneva
Switzerland
http://www.xippas.com
http://veralutter.net
