Claudia Bierwirth
Camberwell University
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In choosing to work with photographs, that can capture only the fleeting moment, I am suggesting not only the ephemerality of time, but also the unreliability of perception. Believing that no single manner of representation can adequately capture an elusive and complex reality, I investigate different approaches. Creating ambiguity and confusion, the photograph’s sharp focus is being blunted by devices, which range from gentle blurring to more obtrusive ways of disrupting the image’s coherence. Pinhole is photography at its most basic, simple and direct. I focus on its ability for extremely long exposure times, to record over a period of time what happens. As a visualisation of time, the images show temporary presences and movement. A certain amount of grey in the images represents a certain amount of time. I admire their magical and mystrical character, their aesthetic fuzzyness as visual fragments of time that makes the photographs more moving than still image. Unlike common portraiture the images remain out of focus, our view will try in vain to get a clear image. The portraits hardly allow conclusions about the person depicted and invite to speculation. The loss of resolution, the imprecision withdraws the subject from a visual and cognitive access. The images appear as drawings, but as they are photographs, they refer to the fact of a documented incident. With my work, I like to diminish the photographs claim for originality and authenticity and to visualize the deceptive depiction of reality. It is left to the beholder to determine his view onto the subject, an attempt to restore to perception its objectivity. I am also investigating anamorphic images with a radically angled film plane, that can only be seen in their original form with one eye looking from where the pinhole would have been. The image disintegrates spatially similar to the way an event dissolves in time.
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