Function 1,1
Chloe Rosser, 2018, Archival print on Hahnemuhle paper
The series of which this photograph is a part, Function, renders the familiar unfamiliar. These real, fleshly bodies are turned to sculpture, and suddenly, the questions 'what is the body?' and 'what is its relationship to its environment?' are given new freight and context. The absence of particularity (namely, the face) allows us to project ourselves in unexpected ways into the scene, and to imagine new answers to the questions above, as our corporeal limitations seem both strengthened and made more porous. Rosser here achieves the art of powerful and evocative simplicity.