Body Archive
Amy Jorgensen’s photographs veer away from our usual expectations of the medium resembling painterly abstractions, with fields of overlapping color, sensual drips and areas of blinding luminosity. We can sense the tension within a microscopic remnant, a smear on a laboratory slide, as it is enlarged and captured on a glossy surface. It is a revelation, as these impressions of her body become an oddly forensic and disjointed self-portrait where the instantaneous opening and closing of the camera’s shutter has been replaced by a performance turned into visual testimony. Read more...
--Allesandra Moctezuma, curator
Amy Jorgensen’s photographs veer away from our usual expectations of the medium resembling painterly abstractions, with fields of overlapping color, sensual drips and areas of blinding luminosity. We can sense the tension within a microscopic remnant, a smear on a laboratory slide, as it is enlarged and captured on a glossy surface. It is a revelation, as these impressions of her body become an oddly forensic and disjointed self-portrait where the instantaneous opening and closing of the camera’s shutter has been replaced by a performance turned into visual testimony. Read more...
--Allesandra Moctezuma, curator