Dunja Evers: Sight and Appearance

June 25 – August 5, 2011

numberthirtyfive gallery is pleased to present Sight and Appearance, work by Duessldorf-based artist Dunja Evers. This is Evers’s first exhibition with the gallery and her first solo exhibition in New York City.

Dunja Evers works in ambiguity. Her photographic images are definite yet abstract. Using cyanotypes, a photo chemical process developed in 1839 by John Herschel, she creates images that have a concrete connection to reality but dissolve in graphic markings that scale her subjects like topographical maps. Shadows and crevasses of the face are highlighted disorienting the image. Her prints become memories, like the faint impressions we experience when closing our eyes. Evers’s afterimages are eerie yet comforting. They are familiar but shift with distance. Her ghostly images transform the space, leaving it calm and serene yet unsettling.

Evers’s work holds the space with a ghostly-air. By washing the walls with grey and creating an installation that reconfigures the gallery, she creates a still, breathless space that is somehow welcoming, eliminating the stoic white cube. A dream played out by familiar yet other worldly figures.

Dunja Evers was born in Hamburg in 1963 and continues to live in Germany. Evers has exhibited at Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Krems, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Berlinische Galerie and widely throughout Europe. She was featured as guest professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as several international lectures on photography.