Claudia Fährenkemper

August 5, 2004 - August 28, 2004

Claudia Fährenkemper’s arresting and surreal black and white images reveal a world only visible through a scanning electron microscope. Scale is skewed and ordinary plant seeds and insects become sculptural, shadows and patterns exposed, science and art converged. Of her work she writes, “All series refer to the human being, remind us of embryonal and fetal development, of portraits, gestures and habitation. The microcosm seems to be strange for us, but in fact there are surprising similarities to our