Elina Brotherus, fotografi

ELINA BROTHERUS (Finland, född 1972): Model Study 17, 2005 - ur serien Model Studies, signerad, daterad och numrerad på baksidan Elina Brotherus 2005, 5/6, färgfotografi, typ C, 80 x 60 cm.

PROVENIENS: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Nutida, våren 2011, nr 1292

UTSTÄLLD: Model Studies, gb agency, Paris 2005
Model Studies, Festival Les Boréales, Musée des Beaux Arts, Cannes 2006
Model Studies, Wapping Project Bankside, London 2009

"I can only acknowledge that work follows life. I made autobiographical self-portraits in the very beginning of my career while still in art school. At the same time I finished my previous university studies of chemistry and my first marriage. It was a major liberation on all fronts and it had to become visible in my photography. Then, for ten years, I did other things - I was interested in painting, the way artists look at their models and how to represent this in a picture. I was using myself as a model but the photos didn´t talk about what was going on in my life. I was an image-maker, dealing with formal, visual and art-historical issues. Then I approached 40 and life got complicated and the autobiography sneaked in again. It wasn´t anything I planned but I didn´t push it back either. This is my strategy as an artist: to accept the pictures that need to happen."