Empty Space

This body of work is about a play between representation and abstraction. Working in a field of tension between photography and painting, as well as between photography and drawing I am exploring the fluidity and endless possibilities of photographic abstraction. Flirting and playing with what is conventionally a photographic record of something in front of the lens, I enter a performative creative process where I intervene in the construction of the images with the gestural act of placing pieces of thread on the walls of my dormitory room. By shooting in a large format of 4x5’’ colour transparencies with maximum depth of field, I create an ambiguity between a photographic document of a wall in full details and another new place; a flat modernist art field similar to the empty white canvases of Robert Ryman or the illusionary nature suggested by the linear spatial drawings in the three-dimensional work of Fred Sandback. In the end, as in the work of Uta Barth, the photographs negotiate an abstract space of emptiness as a potential space of abstraction between a psychological space of subjective projection and an objective material space of aesthetic contemplation. An exhibition of my project in a virtual online gallery space can be seen by visiting the following link: https://publish.exhibbit.com/gallery/507307983/solo-gallery-10929/