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Past Exhibition: The Image After: What Is Left Behind or Sent Ahead Torben Eskerod • Joan Fontcuberta • Silvio Wolf December 10 - January 29, 2000 Opening Reception Friday, December 10th, 5:30-8:00 pm Torben Eskerod - Lecture The artist will discuss his work included in the exhibition. Wednesday, December 15, 7:30 pm Photo credit: Torben Eskerod: Life and Death Masks, From the series Livs og. Dodsmasker, 1997, photogravure. Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Silvio Wolf: Annunciazione Lagrange, Site specific installation, 1999. Courtesy of the artist.     Photo credit: Joan Fontcuberta: Beta Cephei, From the Constellations series,1999. Courtesy of the artist.   The Image After: What is left behind or sent ahead Torben Eskerod Joan Fontcuberta Silvio Wolf Curated by Luis Delgado and Jane Levy Reed San Francisco Camerawork presents the work of Torben Eskerod, Joan Fontcuberta and Silvio Wolf, who all explore the idea of the eternal image which resonates through time. Torben Eskerod, a Danish artist, photographs anonymous death masks of politicians, scientists and writers, the makers of modern Denmark, from the collection of the Museum of National History at Frederiksberg Castle. These images expose the captured souls the masks embody with a vivid realism. Eskerod's faces retain the tangible tactility of their flesh and appear so corporeal that their isolated stillness melts the line between life and death. They are potent ancestral images to guide the living. Spanish photographer, Joan Fontcuberta's series Constellations explores the photographic reflection of life past and present. His mysterious images of fabricated "constellations" consider the manufacturing of individual and collective memory, the falseness of facts and the scientific pretension of irrevocable proof. Fontcuberta's images question our belief in the photograph as an irreproachable document by means of satirical critique. Italian artist, Silvio Wolf's installation is based on projections of positive and negative images of the Shroud of Turin. Wolf is fascinated by the shroud and uses photography to look inside and through it. For him, this icon is a light generated image. He is interested in its immateriality, ambiguity and uncertainty. It is an image of both life and after life. Gallery Admission is F R E E Gallery Talks are available for classes and community groups. Please call to schedule: 415-764-1001 or e-mail us.   related books/cd-roms: Available in our online bookstore · Silvio Wolf Book: Light Specific · Silvio Wolf CD ROM: The Elsewhere · Torben Eskerod Book: Ansighter Return to Past Exhibition list   home | about | exhibitions | bookstore | events | membership | journal | mentoring | links Copyright 1999. SF Camerawork. All Rights Reserved.