ELENA HELFRECHT, SLEEPLESS LANDSCAPES

Exposition Paris

Behind our illuminated houses, there's an unmentionable night time world, where crops and animals take over the area, where inanimate objects enter into conversations, where constructed walls are carried away within the mist and the light. That is the photographic world of Elena Helfrecht. This world seems to us closer to introspective narration or to the horror film; in love with a subjective slowness, like Maya Deren crossed with the magic imaginary of our childhood. Her e-book, Augury, plays with this functionalization. The young German photographer, already internationally exhibited, works in black and white, between landscapes, nonetheless lifes, and reinterpreted vanities, in robust contrasts of sunshine, carried away by results of flash or acquainted moonlight.