BOOK - TIME COLLAPSING

limited edition of 100
hand-numbered & signed by the artist

multiple exposures on 35mm film, all photographs: Christine Miess
self published, 2016, Vienna/Austria
56 pages, 30 pictures
softcover, staple bound, 20.9 x 31.3 cm

price: 54 Euro (incl. VAT)

Not everything seen is real

The trilogy Time Collapsing | Lines Blurring |Truth Dawning resembles a dream sequence. Elements of perception are condensed, pictures emerge and dissolve at the same time. The photographs confront the viewer as they create a moment of new, untouched sensations and emotions. Urban and rural areas, time and place collapse, melt away in the eye of the beholder. Traces of the “real” blend, dreamlike visions delude - and yet the photographs show glimpses of reality.

In the first chapter Time Collapsing various points in time collapse within each single negative and evolve into a new pictorial word – some of them smooth and gentle, others seething and tempestuous. Time and place drench into each other, absorbing and distorting our concepts of reality. Heterogenic photographic fragments create new surprising contexts – dream worlds burst into existence.

The three parts of the trilogy all play with the same topic, but in variation. Regarding Lines Blurring the single exposures take place in different cities/countries. And within Truth Dawning, reality is drenched in unreal colours.