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For her new series Plates I-XXXI, Lia Darjes arranges an experiment on the subject of still lifes. While she sets the ‘stage’ for these pictures, the main aspect is chance:

‘For my new work, I invite myself to eat and drink in the gardens and on the terraces of my friends. The place settings on the garden table become the basis of a still life through my intervention. After I leave, a camera remains behind as a passive observer for a few hours or whole days. It is triggered by movement when birds or wild animals visit the table. In this way, images are created where it is not clear whether it is a documented scene or an arranged still life. I find it fascinating to combine the staged and the accidental in one picture. Plates is a semi-documentary still life study dedicated to the grey area between the habitats of humans and wild animals,’ explains the artist.

‘My photographic work always has a documentary character. I find it appealing to explore the boundaries of documentary photography and to anticipate the viewer’s experience when taking photographs,’ says Lia Darjes, explaining her working method. Lia Darjes was born in Berlin in 1984 and grew up in Hamburg. She studied under Ute Mahler at the HAW in Hamburg and then as a master’s student under Ute Mahler and Ingo Taubhorn at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. Lia Darjes became known for her series Tempora Morte, which was published by Hartman Books in 2019 and received international attention and critical acclaim. The book for the current series is published by Chose Commune, Marseille.

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