Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Untitled 2010
Seelevel Gallery Tweede Kostverlorenkade 69, 1053 SM Amsterdam Pays-Bas
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson
Hybrid Landscape
Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson are fascinated by nature landscapes. It seems however that the search for nature plays a more important role than the nature itself. With archetypal nature as their source of inspiration or point of departure, they test the limits of authentic and artificial nature photography, not sidestepping a brush with abstraction.
Ann Pettersson, Untitled 2011
In her latest work, Ann Petterson quickly lets go of reality in her nature images, mixing and transforming these into a hybrid depiction. she manipulates her photos, letting images overlap, or applies technical adjustments, playing with camera angles and choices of lighting. Fascinated by abstraction, she searches for a new dimension within the image. This could be a mood, feeling or primal force. The image therefore assumes a somewhat mythical charge, perhaps even one of estrangement.
Cassandra Eeftinck Schattenkerk makes an allusion in his work to archetypal nature photography. In this series he aims to replicate geological and biological processes in his studio utilising physical elements. This results in hybrid landscapes wherein the creative process and construction are still discernible. He has in this light made landscapes of salt crystals which under the right condition and ingredients grow autonomously. He has included these in the exhibition together with pictures made in actual nature.