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Girandole
2022
Alžběta WOLFLOVA
Photography
120 × 97 cm
In her large photograms, Alžběta Wolfovádisplays compositions inspired by the world of laboratories and organic specimen manipulation. By moving her subjects from the “scientific to the photographic lab,” their meaning is displaced as well.
The relationships between humans and animals, as well as the way humans chose to represent them, are themes crucial to Wolfová’s work. According to Marjorie Bertin, “The artificial staging of the element also questions the notion of animal-machine that mechanises nature and transforms the body into a complex assembly of cogs and machinery.”
An artist and photographer, Alžběta Wolfováis a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Her practice gives colour a crucial role and is inspired by the first analogue photographic techniques elaborated during the nineteenth century, which she distorts: Wolfová uses filters and effects to manipulate the image.
With her photographs as well as her drawings and prints, the artist crafts a poetic and illusory universe. Playingwith lights, bright colours, and reflection effects, she lays a veil of magic over reality. Whether capturing landscapes or natural elements – flowers, feathers… – she reinvents the boundaries between artificial and organic.
Artwork of
Alžběta WOLFLOVA
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