Helene Schmitz
Subtitle: borderlands
Contributors: Schmitz, Helene, 1960-; Schmitz, Helene, 1960-; Dunkers kulturhus (Helsingborg, Sweden)
Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9789198157376
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Exhibitions; Landscape photography; Abandoned buildings; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; Architectural photography
Other titles: Borderlands
Description: Contradictory beauty and multifaceted transience characterise the photographs of spaces and landscapes by Swedish photographer Helene Schmitz. Her series "Earthworks" (abandoned rooms filled with sand) and "Sunken Gardens" (an overgrown butterfly farm in the jungle) even approach a kind of claustrophobic serenity in their closeness and sense of intrusion. Similarly, "Kudzu Project" portrays another kind of suffocation, wherein she turns her lens on the overwhelming tendencies of a specific plant. Schmitz's work thus makes us question our preconceptions of nature. Published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg.
Notes: This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Borderlands, fotografier av Helene Schmitz, 2015, at Dunkers kulturhus.

Text in English and Swedish.
Table of contents: title: Borderlands; title: Earthworks; title: Kudzu project; title: Sunken gardens; title: Livingrooms; title: Epilog.