Michal Rovner
Subtitle: The Space Between
Contributors: Michael Rush (Editor)
Publisher: Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art
Published: September 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783882438284
Subjects: Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Photoessays & Documentaries; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Photography; Video art; Art; Rovner, Michal,; Individual Photographer; Art / Individual Artist; Rovner, Michal; Individual Artist; 1957-; Photography, Artistic
Description: By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries -- between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence -- Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.