EAN: 9783862069750

BOTANICA - GERLINDE MIESENBÖCK LEINEN

House plants have made a comeback in recent years  serving as a ersatz garden for urbanites.
The mother-in-law's tongue  for instance  long spurned as a symbol of the petit bourgeoisie  is
experiencing a renaissance and has long found its way from the stuffy offices of public-sector
employees to hipsters' living rooms.For her project entitled botanica  which she began in 2012
Gerlinde Miesenböck has been photographing house plants against the backdrop of a white linen
sheet. Taken with a large-format camera  her snapshots of this domesticated part of nature that
she found in her friends' homes are reminiscent of historical glass plate negatives that were
used by the scientists and botanists of yore to document their discoveries and cultivated
species.Their plain setting recalls the aesthetics of Neue Sachlichkeit with its reflective
approach in terms of subject matter  form  technique  and tools  as exemplified by Karl
Blossfeldt's numerous plant photographs. Through her thematic and formal focus and her skillful
play with the anachronistic refraction of the images  Miesenböck manages to create a peculiar
effect  not least because her treatment of the motif constitutes a typology of sorts.

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