Misterio Congelado
Resumen del Libro
Running counter to prevailing artistic trends, Lynn Sterns work ignores popular culture in favor of her own austere internal world. Frozen Mysteryis a profound meditation on death and the human psyche, explored through works spanning three decades. Sterns imagery of skulls, which runs through five distinct bodies of work, is unique in contemporary photography (though certainly a tradition in art history). Stern works in series, exclusively in black and white and exclusively in natural, indirect light, the results are characterized by a luminosity that is at least as important as her ostensible subject matter. My aim, she writes, is to de-literalize what is in front of the lens-to make it the expression of something unseen, something beyond the thing itself. Exploring, in part, the relationship between photography and painting, Frozen Mysteryaccompanies a major retrospective of Sterns work at the Museo Fundacion Cristobal Gabarron in Valladolid, Spain.
