'Figure as Dream VIII', 2008
'Figure as Dream III', 2008
Whether taking photographs of architecture, interiors or the human form, Robynne Limoges's main interest is light. 'I am obsessed with light as metaphor,' she says, 'and with the philosophical equation of just how little light is necessary to dispel darkness.' She describes her approach to image-making as 'that of distillation'. 'How,' she asks, 'does one extract the psychological essence from a subject, minimalise the information and yet maintain the emotionalism and the enigmatic nature of what existed in the original experience?'
Her series entitled 'Figure as Dream' was made by shooting into the reflective surface of a mirror or polished glass so that each photograph captures not what she is standing in front of but what is behind her. The emotional intensity in these photographs is accentuated by the high colour contrast in each picture and by the dreamlike haziness she creates.
In her series 'The Light Between' Limoges deliberately focuses her attention not on people but on places where people once were or might be coming back to. There are photographs of Dachau, the Arctic, Dungeness - and each throw up questions about the relationship between place and people, the felt absence of people within spaces, and the suggestion of narrative indicated by a door left ajar, a window open, light falling on a stairwell.
Images from 'The Light Between':
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