Untitled
Amelie von Wulffen
German, born 1966
2003
A chromogenic photograph reworked with cut paper, synthetic-polymer paint, watercolor, ink, and pencil so that a familiar domestic interior is fractured and made to read like a memory or stage set.
You first recognize a photographed room—a table with a red cloth, a chandelier, wooden floor—then your eye is stopped by pale-green brush washes, jagged collage edges and a radiating, fan-like burst of ink lines that collapse perspective and make the scene feel both theatrical and dreamlike.
By literally drawing and painting over photography, von Wulffen joins a contemporary thread that blurs image-making media to reveal photography’s constructedness and to transform ordinary interiors into ambiguous psychological landscapes.
Medium
Chromogenic print, cut-and-pasted paper, synthetic polymer paint, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper
Dimensions
42 1/2 x 58 3/8" (108 x 148.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3464.2005
Palette
Exhibitions
