ARTIST PROFILE

Clara Turchi

  • Italy (b. 1978 in Castiglione delle stiviere)
  • Currently in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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  • 2014
  • Glass, liquified photographic images
  • scraped-off photographic surface subsequently bottled with little water
  • 1 x 10 x 1 cm

  • In time, the image melts down into color and, per the reaction of the chemicals, it continues changing and layering depending on light, temperature, and other unknown elements that pertain, and by choice remain, in the domain of alchemy.
  • Ea  - thumbnail Mockup Installation, April 2014 - thumbnail H _ Detail of Installation View, June 2014 - thumbnail D - thumbnail C - thumbnail Ch - thumbnail Ci - thumbnail Ea  - thumbnail Sm - thumbnail IISm - thumbnail

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    Liquid Documents, 2014 | 2014

The vessels in the installation contain photographic images melted down into liquid form. These liquids are the result of removing millimetrical layers of surface off darkroom prints, subsequently bottled with little water. In time, the image melts down into color and, per the reaction of the chemicals, it continues changing and layering depending on light, temperature, and other unknown elements that pertain, and by choice remain, in the domain of alchemy. Liquid Documents engages with the materiality and the imagining function of photography, proposing an alternative to the common approach to the photograph as being ‘an image of...’(P. Maynard).