Friday, December 17, 2010

Joy - laughter through the tears...

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(a post reprint)





COMMA 27 at Bloomberg Space, London:

ELINA BROTHERUS
2 - 25 September 2010




"The highly acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Elina Brotherus uses a lucid, 
disarming, yet apparently straightforward relationship to subject matter. For 
COMMA, Brotherus is exhibiting a newly commissioned film of a solitary swimmer 
wading naked into, and breaking, the almost solid water surface of a slippery cold 
lake. A development of an earlier work, 'Black Bay Sequence' depicts the artist in 
a metaphorical immersion in which she looses herself to the landscape. This piece 
is presented alongside 'Time Series IV' exhibited in its entirety for the first time at 
Bloomberg SPACE:


The series of 100 self portraits, taken each day, documents the physical effects 
on the artist of strong medication. Brotherus fell ill and was thrown into a 
different relation between her working practice and the necessity to stay home. 
The new photographic series, installed along the balcony in the rear gallery, 
shows a progression of her slowly changing features as the medication blurs the 
edge and blunts the lines of her face. Both works show Brotherus physically and 
emotionally naked. By presenting herself to the viewer as the subject she 
simultaneously looses herself in terms of meaning or presence."





























Elina Brotherus, Joy, 1998
Esa Jaske Collection









Elina Brotherus, Time Series IV, 2010









The Guardian:

Artist of the week 104: Elina Brotherus (link)


A photographer whose impressionistic studies of figures in landscapes are both confessional and mysterious










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