Petra Karadimas places the reality manipulating aspects of photography in the center of her endeavors. She eliminates the photographic grain by using a digital brushstroke, replacing the photographic trace through painterly means and classical compositions. Her images of seemingly remote situations -east-german buildings, billboard ads, construction fences, shrubbery or graffiti- conceptualize an image of the city that oscillates between the real and the virtual, thus reframing the urban.
The cityscapes and sceneries in Petra Karadimas' photographic works are of suggestive force. Her unique image language at the intersection between photography and painting unsettles the ever-present gaze on familiar everyday situations towards a slight displacement of perception.
Petra Karadimas places the reality manipulating aspects of photography in the center of her endeavors. She eliminates the photographic grain by using a digital brushstroke, replacing the photographic trace through painterly means and classical compositions. Her images of seemingly remote situations -east-german buildings, billboard ads, construction fences, shrubbery or graffiti- conceptualize an image of the city that oscillates between the real and the virtual, thus reframing the urban.
With her works Petra Karadimas takes a stand in the...