“It is difficult to get my bearings at first with this photobook - which way round upside down - what am I looking at? I imagine this disorientation is intentional. Julie van der Vaart is fascinated by space and time and our place within it. Nicely designed with metallic endpapers and interrupted by two blasts of beautiful blue to match the spine, these black & white photographs on matte paper were created over the course of six years from van der Vaart's photographic archive. Images of the human body, caves and water(falls) choreographed together appear like skin or landscape; others are more reminiscent of cordyceps, and still others, the solar system. Inspired by theories of non-linear time, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics, the processes rendered on the nudes in the darkroom make them otherworldly. We view these bodies through a screen, as if they are underwater, the surfaces active with life and movement, applying texture, and layering the images like paint on a canvas."
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