Galleria Carla Sozzani presents a preview of the work of young German photographer Frauke Eigen, a revelation of the ‘new photography’ in Europe.
Her large black and white images draw on the tradition of the portrait, in terms of quality and attention, but with symbolic values far removed from conventional portraiture.
Her subjects never look at the lens. Closing their eyes, clearly in response to Eigen’s instructions, they appear to have been caught – or collected – in their most intimate thoughts, dreams, desires and introspective visions.
Eigen puts her works together in diptychs and triptychs with other images of landscapes and objects, formal and environmental references with a cryptic meaning which serve to displace the observer: the portrait is only one element in a more complex, stimulating visual story.
The large format (cm 150×125, 120×140, 125×130) exasperates the simplicity of her pictures of everyday life, free of superstructures or compositional elaborations.
In other images (cm 28×28, 35×35, 45×45), faces and glimpses of nature appear in all their natural harmony.
Galleria Carla Sozzani presents a preview of the work of young German photographer Frauke Eigen, a revelation of the ‘new photography’ in Europe.
Her large black and white images draw on the tradition of the portrait, in terms of quality and attention, but with symbolic values far removed from conventional portraiture.
Her subjects never look at the lens. Closing their eyes, clearly in response to Eigen’s instructions, they appear to have been caught – or collected – in their most intimate thoughts, dreams, desires and introspective visions.
Eigen puts her works together in diptychs and triptychs with other images of landscapes and objects, formal and environmental references with a cryptic meaning which serve to displace the observer: the portrait is only one element in a more complex, stimulating visual story.
The large format (cm 150×125, 120×140, 125×130) exasperates the simplicity of her pictures of everyday life, free of superstructures or compositional elaborations.
In other images (cm 28×28, 35×35, 45×45), faces and glimpses of nature appear in all their natural harmony.