Images picked out of the air like butterflies… Caty Jan dallies with death: one minute you’re there and the next minute you’ve gone, like nothing ever happened. What does it mean to die? A fluttering of wings and that’s it.
Caty Jan shoots in a hurry… as if trying to hold on to life? Through her artistic approach, she questions two of life’s milestones – coming into the world and leaving it, offering up visual responses that are almost stellar. Caught between tension and fragility, barely visible signs of vitality surge up in the images: on a watch face, a fragment of time that passes and suddenly freezes; a show of contemplation narrowly discerned; a man slamming the door in the face of death; a flurry taking flight up towards uncertain skies.
