KUHN, Mona - She Disappeared into Complete Silence

Background information

"Known for her contemporary and intimate depictions of the nude, German-Brazilian photographer Mona KUHN goes abstract in her latest series, 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence.'

Content

For the photobook 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence', Mona KUHN carefully balances architectural lines, light reflections and a single figure against the backdrop of the California desert. The human figure, Mona's friend and collaborator Jacintha, emerges like a surrealist illusion, fragmented and indistinct, sometimes in shadow or overexposed.
The facade of the golden, modernist glass and mirror building on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park serves as an optical plane, an extension of the artist's camera and lens. The light breaks down into refracted colors, the desert vegetation grows sideways, inside is outside and outside is inside.
In addition, the German-Brazilian photographer used metal foils as additional surfaces to create a certain disorientation effect that leads to abstract results. The volume 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' represents the increasing use of techniques that seem to unite the figure, abstractions and landscape." (slightly modified publisher's text, © Steidl Verlag, 2018)

About the German-Brazilian photographer Mona KUHN (b.1969)

Photo books by and about Mona KUHN