Of Shadows Of: Jonathan Kaiser

Set against the backdrop of a vacant hardware store, Jonathan Kaiser’s ‘Of Shadows Of’ investigates the ubiquitous shadow world of photographic representation, with all its tensions between absence and presence, familiarity and uncanny distortion. Relying on shadow silhouettes andoptical/analog photo techniques, each piece strips subject and medium down to a fundamental graphic level. 16mm film projections, silver gelatin prints, and photograms foreground the medium’s materiality as much as its capacity for pictorial information. Crystallized into the silver salts of a print, a shadow becomes an entirely new object – a new presence echoes an absent one.

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