Brigitte Lustenberger – An Apparition of Memory

Description

In this magical illustrated book, Brigitte Lustenberger explores the passing of time, memory and the fragility of life. She transforms flowers dried on slide glass into delicate photographs. Lustenberger celebrates the beauty of decay and leads us into a fascinating world of withered flowers. The pictures show the incredible details of nature’s ingenious constructions. The artist manages to unite both the fleeting quality of a light drawing and the preserving quality of a photograph.

Four essays by renowned curators provide an insight into the artist’s process-oriented way of working, the interweaving of analogue and digital technology in this work and embed An Apparition of Memory in Western and Japanese photographic and art history.

About the artist

Brigitte Lustenberger (*1969, Zurich) studied History of Perception and Photography at the University of Zurich and Fine Art Photography at Parsons The New School of Design in New York. She explores the nature of the medium of photography and its close connection to themes such as decay, memory and death and works with large and medium format cameras, scanners, iPhones, overhead and slide projectors, among other things. Her work has won numerous awards and has been exhibited internationally. She lives in Berne.