Vera Lutter

Clock Tower, Brooklyn, XIX : June 3, 2009

Vera Lutter investigates the camera obscura and its process of recording light on photographic paper. She draws inspiration from architecture and her works explore urban landscapes, industrial sites, mythical landscapes, and the views from her artist studio. These are a selection of the many places where she reframes images to reveal different layers of spatial perception. Her large-scale photographs often require several hours or days of light exposure. She chooses to work with room-sized cameras allowing the size of the resulting image to reflect the architecture in which it was made. The prolonged exposure allows her to record images that give evidence to time passed. The resulting ephemera and movement dissolve time into the image, sometimes enabling ghostly forms to surface. These photographs don’t simply translate the real; they also reveal an intermediate world, a space of corresponding apparitions. The images radiate a fluid and otherworldly feeling that allows the gaze to drift and linger on certain details captured with startling precision.

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dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019
dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now

13 September 2019 – 2 February 2020 13.09.2019 – 02.02.2020
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU)

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Museum in the Camera

29 March 2020 – 19 August 2020 29.03.2020 – 19.08.2020
LACMA, Los Angeles (US)

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