Elfie Semotan
Photographer
06 Mar - 11 Apr 2020
ELFIE SEMOTAN
Photographer
6 March - 11 April 2020
In her photographic work, the artist Elfie Semotan describes the portrait as a film about a photographer and the idea of the still life of a trip from New York to Marfa, Texas and back. Perspectives, light and the pictorial idea of structure symbolize a composition of beauty, perfection, detail and simplicity. The artist's particular way of seeing things can be found in details as she skilfully showcases her personal sensitivity to what initially seem like irrelevant things. Her interest in structures and graphic shapes that are not always immediately recognisable are given importance by her incredible sensitivity. The photos have no discernible relationship to one another, neither as a travelogue nor as a documentation of emotional self-knowledge. This is what makes the pieces both simultaneously surprising and refreshing. Rebelling against people’s usual viewing habits, they cannot be viewed as a whole or as an ensemble. They are analogies to normal processes, a fragmentary selection of parts. Semotan sometimes changes the displayed details of a photograph, like a quote. A single phrase from vocabulary, specifically framed.
Photographer
6 March - 11 April 2020
In her photographic work, the artist Elfie Semotan describes the portrait as a film about a photographer and the idea of the still life of a trip from New York to Marfa, Texas and back. Perspectives, light and the pictorial idea of structure symbolize a composition of beauty, perfection, detail and simplicity. The artist's particular way of seeing things can be found in details as she skilfully showcases her personal sensitivity to what initially seem like irrelevant things. Her interest in structures and graphic shapes that are not always immediately recognisable are given importance by her incredible sensitivity. The photos have no discernible relationship to one another, neither as a travelogue nor as a documentation of emotional self-knowledge. This is what makes the pieces both simultaneously surprising and refreshing. Rebelling against people’s usual viewing habits, they cannot be viewed as a whole or as an ensemble. They are analogies to normal processes, a fragmentary selection of parts. Semotan sometimes changes the displayed details of a photograph, like a quote. A single phrase from vocabulary, specifically framed.