đNew Main Gallery Exhibition đ
Anthea Behm
@antheabehm
: Sloth Pants, Doom Clock, Hand Occluding Face.
Curated by Sally Frater
@sallyfrater
Exhibition: April 22 â May 28, 2022
Reception: May 13, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
Pictured Here:
Saving face, 2022. Black & white silver gelatin photogram, 63â x 42.5â. Courtesy of the artist and 14a (
@14a.hamburg).
Sloth Pants, Doom Clock, Hand Occluding Face brings together photograms from an ongoing series which began in 2016. Photogramsâin their simplest formâare made by placing objects directly onto light sensitive paper and exposing the paper to light. According to some artists and theorists, photograms embody an unmediated reality because they are just light on paper without the medium of the camera. While this is true, it remains the case that no reality is unmediatedâthe scissors and paper themselves, after all, have histories of labor embedded within them. In her black and white silver-gelatin photograms, Behm harnesses what is usually co...