Natalie Truchsess

Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany

Artist statement

I want to leave the world free to be multilayered. Coming from a background in documentary photography, my work still begins with something I encounter in reality, such as plants or everyday objects that attract my attention. Over the years, however, my visual language has increasingly shifted toward abstraction. My images emerge within a relational space where different realities meet. My various photographic approaches offer me different ways of accessing these in-between spaces, where I can engage with the multilayered nature of the world. With Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), I initially found a way to explore not only a place, but also its atmosphere or its genius loci. From this, I later developed “Remodel by Camera Movement” (RCM), my own technique in which I move the camera in multiple dimensions during the exposure. In the process, the recognizable form of the found subject dissolves to such an extent that it no longer primarily speaks of itself. Something from the non-representational dimension of the experienced situation – sensations, thoughts, or ideas – can take shape; color and form replace representational appearance. I refer to these works as “Photographic Lyrical Abstraction.” Like poetry, they are a way for me to enter into a personal engagement with the world. With my “Emergographies,” I take a different photographic path into such an in-between space. The term Emergography derives from emergence: the coming into being of something new that cannot be...

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