Elizabeth Preger (b. 1988 Los Angeles, CA) earned a BA in Art from UCLA in 2010. Her practice focuses on ideas of mythmaking as well as photography's historical relationship to mortality and place. In 2012 Elizabeth had a solo show at Artery Post Modern Gallery in Thailand. Her work has also been included in exhibitions curated by Mark Allen and Anne Ellegwood, published in the LA times and LA weekly and featured at Photo L.A. 2013 and 2014 as a part of Emerging Focus.
Kathmandu Photo Gallery presents « Here are my teeth: Black with stars », a photographic exhibition by Elizabeth Preger.
How do you photograph bodily sensations and our preprogrammed cellular decay? Elizabeth Preger’s sensitive, sombre work instantly brings to mind the Thai Buddhist death meditation mantra: “It shrinks; it swells,” a simple description of the process undergone by the flesh when it dies.
Extreme close-ups of vulnerable naked body parts convey fleshy sensations; a hand with mottled nail varnish lightly fingers a hairy navel; downy feathers scattered across a female torso; the bone-like calcium textures of seashells worn smooth by the bearing might of sea and wind, bleached by the sun, carefully collected in a white porcelain bowl with a soft raised pattern of bendin...