Liz Deschenes | Stereograph #35, 2019| max goelitz

2019

Medium

Silver toned photogram mounted on dibond

Dimensions

213.4 × 17.8 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155788

The slim and tall wall sculpture Stereograph #35 is composed of two long-term exposed photograms, connected at a right angle and thus partially tangent to the wall. Liz Deschenes uses light-sensitive paper for the Stereographs work series, which she began in 2003, to create camera less, self-referential works. She describes her approach as stereographic - a term originally coined in the 1850s for two nearly identical prints that, paired and viewed through a stereoscope, create a 3-D illusion of a single image. Deschenes uses this technique of doubling and splitting to give the recipient the opportunity to actively participate in her work: "My artworks should challenge active engagement. The viewers are an integral part of the artwork in which they participate. They are not given a representation of something past, but a physical object in which they participate in the present." The artist understands Stereograph #35 less as a classical image, but rather as an experience bound to space and time. As in the works FPF #1, (2018) and FPF#5 (2018), the viewers activate the work through their movement and presence in the space and thus temporarily also become part of the presentation. Liz Deschenes created the first works of the Stereographs series on the occasion of her exhibition at the Vienna Secession 2012 and has been developing them continuously since.