Eva Schlegel, Untitled (152d), 2014
, Lambda print, Edition 5, 205 x 105 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Eva Schlegel, Untitled (006), 2002-2003
, Lambda print, Edition 5, 205 x 105 cm
Kollitsch Collection

In her photographic works Eva Schlegel makes deliberate use of fuzziness as a design element. In her portraits of women the subjects are reduced to blurred silhouettes without any discernible facial features, so that their fuzziness makes it impossible to perceive them as objects. The artist thus addresses the viewer’s attempt to unveil the mystery behind the veil, sending each of us into a fantasy world that can only be found in each person alone. She challenges us to enter into an inner dialogue and to develop our own potential imagination. The essence, however, remains hidden from us. Despite the immediacy of those larger-than-life depictions, we cannot overcome their remoteness.