Relief.

Christie Contemporary

June 18 - July 23, 2022

Curated by Claire Christie

Christie Contemporary is pleased to present Relief, Jessica Thalmann’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. While the photographic image is central to her practice, it is always just a first step, as Thalmann routinely disrupts the photograph as image holder to evidence actual dimension. Whether folding, tearing, tessellating or scoring, her images of architectural features and details, already alluding to projections into space, acquire contours along new coordinates. In a moment when positive and negative have infiltrated our everyday, Thalmann engages this duality at the level of image-making, capturing incidental images of light and shadow for her folded cyanotypes, where negatives are flipped, reversed and rotated during the exposure process to record chance results.