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VERZERRT Photography, 2013 Day by day, we are confronted with a flood of pictures of digitally manipulated bodies. The presented women have no defects and even if they do, we are not to see them. The photos are edited: the models' skin seems more even, the neck slimmer, the eyes bigger, the lips fuller, the legs longer, and the arms thinner. Pictures which are produced artificially are forced upon us, in order to make us identify and copy them. The present piece forms a counterpart to the hyperrealistic delusions of advertising photography. Taking into account André Kertézs, who in his art series "Distortions" (1933) took photos of women in front of distorted mirrors creating grotesque and surrealistic seeming pictures, the present work uses reflecting domestic objects (shower head, grater, spatula...), in order to create portraits and acts which oppose imposed body norms. (Ulla Sladek) |
ULLA SLADEK
AT Ulla Sladek, born in 1979 in Bruck an der Mur/ Styria, she grew up in Graz, after stays in Maastricht (studies) and Frankfurt am Main (work), she now lives and works in Graz. Being a sociologist and photographer, Ulla Sladek's aim is to call attention to the sociol conditions and to encourage observers to question representations in order to make up their own minds. She used to work in social research, now she is a staff member in the Woman's Health Center. From 2010 to 2013 she visited the College for Fine Art Photography and Multimedia Art in Graz. Since 2013 she is part of the photographer's collective "blyf" and works together with artist-in-residence members of various disciplines and countries in the artist's studio Rondo in Graz.
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