Angle 20° by Andrea Grundt Johns
Filicology
14,8 x 20 cm
24 pages
Offset print
Edition of 300, numbered
Andrea Grundt Johns’ photographs shuttle between deconstruction and reconstruction. She works consistently with the empty and transitory aspects of photography – as visual traces of something that is vanishing. In Filicology she studies the fern. Throughout history this useful plant has served a number of purposes, including the making of glass and protection against evil spirits and powers. Charred ferns were transformed into crystals, and according to ancient folk belief fern seeds could make you invisible. Burning fern leaves as incense can put you in contact with the dead and the spirit world. Through references to superstition and ancient knowledge, as opposed to the coldly technical approach, a mythical framework is created around the plant – spirituality and the cultic forces of nature trickle through.
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