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Cindy Konits This Room Will Survive Me
2021, July 29 @ 08:00 - 2021, August 18 @ 17:00 CEST
” Artist statement
Cindy Konits: This Room Will Survive Me
The photograph does not necessarily say what is no longer,
but only and for certain what has been.
—Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
In my resistance to transition from film to digital photography, I discovered a compromise in a corner of my studio closet. An obsolete professional instant camera replete with bellows for effect and manual F64 aperture for long exposures enabled tactility with film, emulsion and a singular print. This process now relegated to the past uniquely suits my fascination with investigation of the past and its traces in the present.
In the Spring of 2019 I began photographing myself in long yellow and red rays of seasonal sun near windows and open doorways. I sought light and shadows in passages between rooms of my house and surrounding nature. In a meditative state near room contours where light flooded my body, I counted long estimated exposures to experience and portray the significance of a room in my encounter with interior emotional and psychological space. (…)”