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"Barbara Ess makes subtly-toned photographs that are not so much reality as visionary versions of it. Blurry and distorted, they seem to coax their subjects from mysterious spaces."
--Grace Glueck, "The New York Times"
"Ess's images often have a dreamy subterranean quality--part wonder and part menace--as if culled directly from the subconscious."
--Gregory Volk," ARTnews"
"Ess works in a gap between the out-there of the world and the in-here of the mind, not to heal the gap but, for truth's sake, precisely to widen it. She thereby establishes a zone congenial to honest speculations of intelligence and to test-firings of the heat-seeking missile of the heart."
--Peter Schjeldahl, "The Village Voice"
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I Am Not This Body investigates primary, personal experience, and relies upon the viewer's imagination and memoirs. Barbara Ess is renowned for her uniquely accomplished use of the pinhole camera, and her effort to "photograph what cannot be photographed." Ess 's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls "ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there." In her view, "reality...includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts desires emotions -[which] a normal camera tends to omit". The Strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of d desire and loss.
"Barbara Ess makes subtly-toned photographs that are not so much reality as visionary versions of it. Blurry and distorted, they seem to coax their subjects from mysterious spaces."
--Grace Glueck, "The New York Times"
"Ess's images often have a dreamy subterranean quality--part wonder and part menace--as if culled directly from the subconscious."
--Gregory Volk," ARTnews"
"Ess works in a gap between the out-there of the world and the in-here of the mind, not to heal the gap but, for truth's sake, precisely to widen it. She thereby establishes a zone congenial to honest speculations of intelligence and to test-firings of the heat-seeking missile of the heart."
--Peter Schjeldahl, "The Village Voice"
Synopsis
I Am Not This Body investigates primary, personal experience, and relies upon the viewer's imagination and memoirs. Barbara Ess is renowned for her uniquely accomplished use of the pinhole camera, and her effort to "photograph what cannot be photographed." Ess 's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls "ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there." In her view, "reality...includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts desires emotions -[which] a normal camera tends to omit". The Strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of d desire and loss.
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