Miriam Böhm
Fade III
Artist
Miriam Böhm
(1972, Berlin), German
Original Title
Fade III
Date2016
Mediumarchival pigment print on paper
Dimensions44,5 × 68,5 cm
Classificationsprints
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionMiriam Böhm creates photographic images from various visual elements, including geometric shapes and landscape fragments, which become equal components within her work. Her aesthetic, minimalist compositions primarily draw on the juxtaposition of surfaces, fragments, and space, creating peculiar new realities and poetic ambiences provocative due to their elusiveness and indecipherability. Some of her series are figurative, thematizing nature and landscapes, but nevertheless refraining from more specific references and avoiding elicitation of imaginative readings—rather, they can be understood in relation to questions of abstract composition and representation. Böhm’s more abstract works are evocative of 20th century abstract painting, particularly of Russian constructivism with its aim of defining new spatial relations. Interpretation of her work relies on the immersion of the viewer into a sophisticated formal game where the multiplicity of compositional elements engenders various shifts and layerings, resulting in effects of mirroring and transparency as well as a fluid dematerialization of the depicted spatial relations.
Fade III (2016) is an optical illusion, although it may not be immediately obvious. Böhm creates a meta-image by repeatedly photographing and subsequently layering the previously photographed image, creating an imaginative spatial collage open to varying individual interpretations.
Miriam Böhm (*1972, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. From 1993 to 1997, she studied on a scholarship at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Two years later, she received a grant from the Akzo Nobel Foundation. Between 1999 and 2000, she studied at the Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsten in Amsterdam and also received the Robert Bosch Foundation Grant. In 2016, her work was included in an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bochum exploring the changing understandings of the photographic medium. Her works are included in numerous collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in San Francisco. In 2014, she was nominated for the Rudin Prize for young photographers.
Fade III (2016) is an optical illusion, although it may not be immediately obvious. Böhm creates a meta-image by repeatedly photographing and subsequently layering the previously photographed image, creating an imaginative spatial collage open to varying individual interpretations.
Miriam Böhm (*1972, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. From 1993 to 1997, she studied on a scholarship at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Two years later, she received a grant from the Akzo Nobel Foundation. Between 1999 and 2000, she studied at the Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsten in Amsterdam and also received the Robert Bosch Foundation Grant. In 2016, her work was included in an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bochum exploring the changing understandings of the photographic medium. Her works are included in numerous collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in San Francisco. In 2014, she was nominated for the Rudin Prize for young photographers.
