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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Manon Weiser
What we loved was not enough
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My series is aptly titled "What We Loved Was Not Enough" and is uniquely made of ferrotypes. To draw relative irony and offer perspective this series exhibits two opposing sides of nature and life: on one side is the natural world – or at least what remains of it before it is all but gone. And on the other is new life that is throbbing, blossoming, and ever growing anew all around us. The camera, however, can never quite seem to capture either sides in their complete essence. Rather, the lens captures a moment that requires our interaction and interpretation to derive meaning and provide meaning to my work.
Through my lens, and through my work, you can see that it is my body and my face that are the subjects of the camera. It is the ever-present state in between what is dying and what is living that I try to insert myself, my work, my passion, my fears, my doubts, my emotions – my all.
Photography is not just the capture of a moment in time, frozen forever without words to provide context or meaning. The imagery that my lens captures is only made complete by the viewer that interacts personally with my work who, through their interpretation, allows it to vibrate, blossom and permeate in this world. There is something invisible in what I seek to show, noticeable only with emotion and open mindedness. My work aims to tell one story, with a single message: what we loved was not enough.
About author:
Forever with me is the taste of forgotten memories, clinging from my past like loose threads from a frayed ball of yarn. Dark reminiscences ironically filled by absences and disappearances. I like to go in search of traces, memories, often small footprints, bordering on the imperceptible, to explore the hidden corners of man that we consider dark and which we prefer to hide from our eyes, preferring to live in ignorant bliss.
Through the lens, I try to show what is fundamentally intangible and for this I chose to forego digital mediums in favor of more tangible and more palpable ones in an effort and with the aim to evoke the rawest of human emotions. My work combines pinhole, ferrotype, etching, collage and embroidery; my images aim to arouse a universal common denominator and in doing so they reveal a fragile beauty, that is often subtle and suggestive. But ultimately every beauty, and every emotion succumbs to the inevitable deterioration that strikes everything in this world without prejudice nor bias.
Born in 1982, Manon Weiser works and lives in Grenoble, France.
Through my lens, and through my work, you can see that it is my body and my face that are the subjects of the camera. It is the ever-present state in between what is dying and what is living that I try to insert myself, my work, my passion, my fears, my doubts, my emotions – my all.
Photography is not just the capture of a moment in time, frozen forever without words to provide context or meaning. The imagery that my lens captures is only made complete by the viewer that interacts personally with my work who, through their interpretation, allows it to vibrate, blossom and permeate in this world. There is something invisible in what I seek to show, noticeable only with emotion and open mindedness. My work aims to tell one story, with a single message: what we loved was not enough.
About author:
Forever with me is the taste of forgotten memories, clinging from my past like loose threads from a frayed ball of yarn. Dark reminiscences ironically filled by absences and disappearances. I like to go in search of traces, memories, often small footprints, bordering on the imperceptible, to explore the hidden corners of man that we consider dark and which we prefer to hide from our eyes, preferring to live in ignorant bliss.
Through the lens, I try to show what is fundamentally intangible and for this I chose to forego digital mediums in favor of more tangible and more palpable ones in an effort and with the aim to evoke the rawest of human emotions. My work combines pinhole, ferrotype, etching, collage and embroidery; my images aim to arouse a universal common denominator and in doing so they reveal a fragile beauty, that is often subtle and suggestive. But ultimately every beauty, and every emotion succumbs to the inevitable deterioration that strikes everything in this world without prejudice nor bias.
Born in 1982, Manon Weiser works and lives in Grenoble, France.