A sequence by German artist and photographer Bettina Koller. Following her research at Freie Kunstwerkstatt München and Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign München, Koller started experimenting with varied photographic processes and supplies as a means of exploring bigger questions on id, social roles and the shaping of our existence. At present based mostly in Munich, she continues to handle problems with materiality and id in her sequence, “Hyperarousal,” which paperwork her hair loss utilizing photograms — a way that entails putting an object (on this case her personal hair) on a light-sensitive floor and exposing it to mild to create a direct translation of the bodily contact.
“With out showing myself, I take advantage of my physique as most important topic of my work. As soon as once more, I tie in with the custom of feminine self-representation by journaling my rising hair loss on 46 dated photograms over a interval of 1 and a half years. Hair is a bodily manifestation of our life and holds emotional weight and reminiscences. The lack of hair is linked with the lack of vitality and youth. An on a regular basis signal of getting old and the transience. Gathering my hair in family jars and recording it in a diary-like really feel on photograms is my technique to deal with this and to oppose one thing. Hyperarousal can be in regards to the course of of making and the situations — when does it begin, why does it cease, what occurs throughout the intervals when no photogram is created — what do voids inform?”
For Koller, the photogram reveals materiality beforehand invisible to the bare eye. The result’s a sequence of tangled nests of hair reworked by publicity onto date-stamped 4×5 inch sheets of movie that signify one thing each bodily and ethereal. See extra from the challenge beneath.