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Paul Tecklenberg
Much of my practice is about perception; revealing what is usually hidden. This has taken the form of revealing the intimate details of an alcoholic's life (in the video piece 'Lift'), or experimenting with photographic paper, objects and drawings to make images that resemble medical x-rays or microscopic images of what looks like bacteria, viruses or cell structures. However, on closer inspection, they are fabricated from things you would find inside a kitchen cupboard or bathroom cabinet.
The most recent images stem from my artist-in-residence at Swedenborg House(1) and are inspired by his book "Heaven & Hell"(2). The images are hand-printed using transparencies from hand-made pin hole cameras with apertures as big as f 750. They are not digital but analogue, made as a means of connecting with Swedenborg, who was fascinated with camera obscures. Some of the exposures contain 16 hours of light captured into one image.
The 'Heaven & Hell' and the sound installation 'Random Passages' can be seen in the basement as part of 'Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions' from February 25th until March 5th at 20 - 21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH.
(1) Emanuel Swedenborg was primarily a scientist of the Enlightenment and then in his later life he became a spiritual visionary who communed with angels, demons and spirits in heaven, hell and the spirit plane.
(2) "Heaven and Hell" brings together his observations from entering heaven and hell.
Link to Paul Tecklenberg's website
Link to Swedenborg website
Much of my practice is about perception; revealing what is usually hidden. This has taken the form of revealing the intimate details of an alcoholic's life (in the video piece 'Lift'), or experimenting with photographic paper, objects and drawings to make images that resemble medical x-rays or microscopic images of what looks like bacteria, viruses or cell structures. However, on closer inspection, they are fabricated from things you would find inside a kitchen cupboard or bathroom cabinet.
The most recent images stem from my artist-in-residence at Swedenborg House(1) and are inspired by his book "Heaven & Hell"(2). The images are hand-printed using transparencies from hand-made pin hole cameras with apertures as big as f 750. They are not digital but analogue, made as a means of connecting with Swedenborg, who was fascinated with camera obscures. Some of the exposures contain 16 hours of light captured into one image.
The 'Heaven & Hell' and the sound installation 'Random Passages' can be seen in the basement as part of 'Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions' from February 25th until March 5th at 20 - 21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH.
(1) Emanuel Swedenborg was primarily a scientist of the Enlightenment and then in his later life he became a spiritual visionary who communed with angels, demons and spirits in heaven, hell and the spirit plane.
(2) "Heaven and Hell" brings together his observations from entering heaven and hell.
Link to Paul Tecklenberg's website
Link to Swedenborg website
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