An Attempt at Exhausting a Place: Chapter 1 (The Girl in the Mirror), 2025
Hand-mirrrored kiln-formed glass, photographs, 35.6 x 28 cm (11” x 14” inches) each mirrored panel.
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place
Inspired by Georges Perec's book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, which brings together a collection of observations describing all the little things in life that usually go unnoticed, the photographic series An Attempt at Exhausting a Place reveals what at first glance seemed unworthy of attention. Lorna Bauer draws on her personal archive to revisit images taken over the last twenty years, highlighting the mundane details, ordinary events, and subtle phenomena that cause the world around us to fluctuate. The photographs are inserted into glass tiles shaped by the artist, onto which she has carefully applied silver nitrate—a chemical substance that reveals the photographic image. Between image and object, each work presents itself as a fragment of an infinite whole, cataloguing the minute variations of time, light, setting, and life. Reflections of the surrounding reality combine with the shimmering effect of silver nitrate and photographs from the artist's archives to create complex, prismatic representations of life.
Inspired by Georges Perec's book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, which brings together a collection of observations describing all the little things in life that usually go unnoticed, the photographic series An Attempt at Exhausting a Place reveals what at first glance seemed unworthy of attention. Lorna Bauer draws on her personal archive to revisit images taken over the last twenty years, highlighting the mundane details, ordinary events, and subtle phenomena that cause the world around us to fluctuate. The photographs are inserted into glass tiles shaped by the artist, onto which she has carefully applied silver nitrate—a chemical substance that reveals the photographic image. Between image and object, each work presents itself as a fragment of an infinite whole, cataloguing the minute variations of time, light, setting, and life. Reflections of the surrounding reality combine with the shimmering effect of silver nitrate and photographs from the artist's archives to create complex, prismatic representations of life.
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place
Inspired by Georges Perec's book An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, which brings together a collection of observations describing all the little things in life that usually go unnoticed, the photographic series An Attempt at Exhausting a Place reveals what at first glance seemed unworthy of attention. Lorna Bauer draws on her personal archive to revisit images taken over the last twenty years, highlighting the mundane details, ordinary events, and subtle phenomena that cause the world around us to fluctuate. The photographs are inserted into glass tiles shaped by the artist, onto which she has carefully applied silver nitrate—a chemical substance that reveals the photographic image. Between image and object, each work presents itself as a fragment of an infinite whole, cataloguing the minute variations of time, light, setting, and life. Reflections of the surrounding reality combine with the shimmering effect of silver nitrate and photographs from the artist's archives to create complex, prismatic representations of life.
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place: Chapter 1 (The Girl in the Mirror), 2025
Hand-mirrrored kiln-formed glass, photographs, 35.6 x 28 cm (11” x 14” inches) each mirrored panel.