Rauch: Monastic

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With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastic interiorswhile simultaneously separating them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and worked in several of the icons of European monastic architecture over the past few years, including Le Corbusiers Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon, Hans van der Laans Roosenberg Abbey near Antwerp, and Andrea Palladios monastery San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Using an analogue, medium-format camera, she has created images that tell of immersion, with ascetic lighting control and reduced colors. The absence of human presence and the subtle treatment of light and shadow lend her interiors an element of timelessness and placelessness.

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