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Faye Heller's captivating work takes the indices
of the physical world and splits them up, mixes
and multiplies referents to produce cool,
seductively smart photomontage.
There's always an element of intrigue,of cinema
enigma, that recalls film noir, while the crisp
black and white imagery also owes something
to the French New Wave, as when she's
justaposing a staircase and a woman's eyes to
invoke "The Start of Fiction".
Heller is fascinated by the mutual impact of
the human and immaterial-"if you had one
thing, for example, the image of an
architectural space..by introducing an image
of a person...would be the beginning of a
movement." It is the tension between the self
and space, as well as the properties of the
photographic medium that work to underline
it, that comes through most strongly in this work.
Heller's process generally consists in taking
source photographs from her own archives,
rephotoghraphing the images, assembling
them, and then rephotographing that to
come up with the final total image. The
unexpected takes on reality.
It is a limited field interpreted from what seems
to be an infinite variety of angles, and the
effect is singular. The whole is fragmented and
brought back together with the shock of a new
intensity. It places the viewer in that space of
looking around,chopping up and recombining
space in their mind. Heller's work pushes the
parameters of photography as a medium and
as a concept, and she creates her own rules.
Faye Heller obtained her MFA from the Slade
School(UK) in 2001, and has had solo and
group exhibitions in Holland, Italy and London,
England.
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