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Portfolio: Souvenir (2009-2010)

Artist statement:

In Souvenir, Liesl Pfeffer uses the tropes of travel photography to explore the concept of photographic truth.

Souvenir consists of photo-media collages depicting imaginary foreign landscapes, including mountain ranges, fjords and lakes, inspired by and referencing the composition of vernacular travel photographs.

What at first glance appears to be a mountain is actually made up of pieces of snapshots of the everyday; anything from fences to clouds. There is something false and visually jarring in these images; the artist uses this disjunct to explore questions of truth in photography.

Exhibitions:

Feburary 2011
Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane

November 2010
NO NO GALLERY, Melbourne

The Mountains Wait, 2009
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
50 x 50 cm
Edition 3/10

Summer Fjord, 2010
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
70 x 50 cm
Edition 1/10

The Crystal Lake, 2010
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
70 x 50 cm
Exhibition print 1/10 sold
Further prints available on application

Lake Mountain, 2010
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
70 x 50 cm
Exhibition print 1/10 sold
Further prints available on application

Sunset Over Mountains, 2010
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
50 x 50 cm
Exhibition print 1/10 sold
Further prints available on application

Iceberg, 2010
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
50 x 50 cm
Edition 1/10

Mountain Rock, 2009
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
50 x 50 cm
Edition 1/10

One Hundred Days Away, 2009
Archival pigment ink on Hahnemuhle paper
50 x 50 cm
Edition 1/10

Installation Views

Installation views
NO NO Gallery, Melbourne
November 2010
Photos by Liesl Pfeffer

© All images copyright Liesl Pfeffer 2005-2011