"Bjerger paints photographs, both her own and found images [like Gerhard Richter] She reproduces the scene exactly as she finds it - the same crop, same figures, same setting. She wants to give faded photographs a sense of importance, a permanence, Often she paints her family and friends, but she doesn't want us to know who they are. By painting them she transforms them into a type - a mother, a naked bather, a traveller - whom she wants uis to relate to generically. She gives life back to people frozen by the camera, and her runny paint and brushy style fill her small, non-hierarchical paintings with a latent energy.
No comments:
Post a Comment