Tereza Zelenkova - Contemporary Artists

Cometes

Cometes The Saatchi Gallery
 

Tereza Zelenkova

Cometes

2012
Framed silver gelatin print

127 x 101.6 cm

To make photography startling in a culture saturated with the photographic image is Tereza Zelenkova’s - as every photographer’s - particular challenge. Her approach is to draw from the estrangement of image and subject familiar from Surrealist photography: to dismantle the photograph’s claims to truth, to complicate the act of looking. Take her photograph Cometes (its title referring to the Greek term meaning both ‘comet’ and ‘long-haired’): the stark flash associated with paparazzi photography, its hard light a way to render every blemish visible in the gloom of night, has been applied to an image of concealment, of invisibility.
 
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