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ArchiveBorn 1949 in Paris, France
Sophie Ristelhueber’s powerful work addresses the essence of our existence as individuals and as civilization. Her works (mostly photographs and installations) result from her need to quell her obsessions that include attention to the traces and scars at the surface of the world. In her large-scale art works and installations, photographed landscapes appear in fragments, damaged, pockmarked and reveal traces of history and conflict, what she calls «details of the world».
Ristelhueber has photographed these metaphorical landscapes in war-torn places thus recording the violence inflicted on the surface of the earth by the machinery of war. Her images can read initially as abstractions and she generally offers little contextualizing information to help viewers understand them. Rather than focusing on the geopolitical meaning of a particular conflict, Ristelhueber is engaged with the ambiguities of what she calls the “terrain of the real and of collective emotions.”
 Sophie Ristelhueber, Eleven Blowups #10, Photography printed on glass, 120 x 146 cm, Edition of 3, 2006. |
