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The quiet of dissolution, Ice storm
2005
Sonja Braas
Photography
159,1x206,5 cm
C-print, diasec
"The countryside is the modelling of nature by man. Here modelling means that man imagines it, fools it, venerates it, identifies it, defines it and maps it out and also models it to his own idea, cultivating it, exploiting and copying it. Man's relationship with nature develops with the importance it holds for him. My work is associated with the perception of nature and the landscape. I am particularly interested in the themes of copying, repetition and reproduction of nature and its influence on perception, etc.; These landscapes are not associated with defined, existing geographic regions but are only suggested, at the same time covering the various climatic and topological zones of landscapes as exhaustively as possible by the photographs presented in order to create a fictitious world atlas."
"The countryside is the modelling of nature by man. Here modelling means that man imagines it, fools it, venerates it, identifies it, defines it and maps it out and also models it to his own idea, cultivating it, exploiting and copying it. Man's relationship with nature develops with the importance it holds for him. My work is associated with the perception of nature and the landscape. I am particularly interested in the themes of copying, repetition and reproduction of nature and its influence on perception, etc.; These landscapes are not associated with defined, existing geographic regions but are only suggested, at the same time covering the various climatic and topological zones of landscapes as exhaustively as possible by the photographs presented in order to create a fictitious world atlas."
Sonja Braas
Germany
Born in 1968
Born in Siegen, Allemagne
live and work in Germany and New York.
Shot in the studio from models, Sonja Braas’s photographs attempt to illustrate the power of nature. In so doing, they also define the turbulent relationship between man and the land that is not only cultivated, exploited and sculpted, but also venerated and mythified. Visually expressing nature’s energy in her wild, intense pictorial dramas, Sonja Braas strives to compose a fictitious world atlas covering the various climate and topographical zones. Natural disasters and their cultural and political consequences are the themes of this series. Through larger-than-life-sized images, these moments frozen in time appear to be authentic then immediately challenge and demystify this perception.
live and work in Germany and New York.
Shot in the studio from models, Sonja Braas’s photographs attempt to illustrate the power of nature. In so doing, they also define the turbulent relationship between man and the land that is not only cultivated, exploited and sculpted, but also venerated and mythified. Visually expressing nature’s energy in her wild, intense pictorial dramas, Sonja Braas strives to compose a fictitious world atlas covering the various climate and topographical zones. Natural disasters and their cultural and political consequences are the themes of this series. Through larger-than-life-sized images, these moments frozen in time appear to be authentic then immediately challenge and demystify this perception.
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Sonja Braas
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