Section

Photo series „Section“ If we are taking a photo, it is perhaps a reflection of something not belonging to our reality? A long time of my life, I was not taking photos, because I thought, I did not need to keep moments of light, beauty or life in a kind of memory, thats not my mind. So, I principle did not take pictures! I thought that my kind of reality was enough! For one year ago I started making art photos. I am still speechless about the world inside of photos, that was nowhere in my reality before..a kind of parallel universe! Like a ghost, made visible though taking a picture. I started taking photos, because I wanted to have a view in this hidden exiting world. As my child was close to dying, because of a Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation in his lungs and a very long hazardous operation saved his jung life, it inspired me for the photo series „Section". I wanted to process this brutal experience in art photos showing brutallity, hope, fear, despair, relief and exhaustion, to be able to handle my sudden insight of the thin burr between life and dead. Taking the dicision about „delivering“ this small human, who was saying: „I do not want this operation!“, to this people „standing above us“ in the hierarchy, because they were doctors, was a diffucult decision for me. What about his human rights? Saing „No!“ Do not everybody have the right to deside about their own life and body ? In all my projects reduced performance is my biggest goal. Susan Madsen 2019