Manresa Gallery's newest exhibition features the work of German artist Nicole Ahland.
Through the study of light suffusing dark interior spaces, Ahland creates a
metaphor for the transformation of the internal human experience. Just as the
eye adapts to darkness, one’s perceptions are tempered during the long
wait for the clarity of dawn. Ahland lays out how viewers’ expectations are
interrupted – hope-filled clearings of vision are variously mollified and
magnified by an infiltrating, mute brilliance. One is invited to explore
textured, often obscured enchantments, as the journey leads into a flood of
transcendence.
The photographs included in
the exhibition stem from two bodies of work produced between 2010 and 2015.
These night-long exposures were made in two neighboring inner-city churches in
Cologne, Germany: the Gothic parish of Saint Peter’s and the endowed Romanesque
St. Cecilia’s, which now houses the Schnütgen Museum of Medieval Art. By
hosting Ahland’s work, the Manresa Gallery invites those spaces to enliven a
meditational dialogue within another church venue.
More about the artist: Nicole
Ahland uses analog photography to explore charged spaces; her work makes note
of memories, moods, and histories. Ahland’s search for rooms with traces of
upheavals or demolitions has lead her across Europe, and she continues to
search for a distinguished spatial quality that often reveals the tension
inherent in the relationship between the aesthetics of architecture and a
space’s functionality.
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