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Privation (Installation View)

Angela Grauerholz2001

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

Angela Grauerholz's showcase at the Madras Literary Society during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. For the ‘Privation’ project, Angela scanned the front and back covers, of a selected number of the books that were damaged by fire, leaving their content either hidden from view, or, at times, only a title, a word, or part of an image was visible. Using the scanner as camera, the resulting digital images induced her to contemplate—and eventually gain a more profound understanding—of the regenerative aspects of ‘loss’. Apart from the loss of property, the transition from analogue to digital photography posed an almost unsurmountable problem for her, at that time. This became beautifully logical in its simplicity: an image of reality—as the scanner gave little room for interpretation—and the document, the digital image confronted with the fact that the absence of materiality, transforms the resulting image into a ‘mere’ reproduction - a print in the truest sense.

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  • Title: Privation (Installation View)
  • Creator: Angela Grauerholz
  • Date Created: 2001
  • Location: Madras Literary Society, Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
  • Exhibition title: The library of Babel
  • Exhibition Description: Here there are innumerable old books and books within books
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's website: http://angelagrauerholz.com/
  • Artist's biography: Born in Hamburg, Germany, Angela Grauerholz has lived and worked in Montréal since 1976. From 1989 to 2016, Grauerholz was full professor at the École de Design of the Université du Québec, Montréal teaching typography and photography.
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