The work of Andreas Rentsch is disconcerting - a spirited amalgam of photography, performance and drawing. The artist works with a Polaroid 55, the famous instantaneous photographic medium which produces a unique image. Rentsch photographs his own body in different positions, while outlining it (literally 'drawing it') with a flashlight. Each of the images requires a five-to fifteen-minute-long exposure. In developing the film, Rentsch allows the chemical process to degrade for weeks or even months. Impurities develop during this time, but these only become apparent at the moment when negative and positive are separated. These accidental effects are considered by the artist to be as important to the image as aspects of form and color. Finally, when he fixes the print, Rentsch tones it with sepia while scratching the emulsion. Only the negative is preserved at the end of this lengthy process. The resulting imagery reveals scenes of torment. As the son of a prison director - Rentsch lived until the age of 18 in Bellechasse Penitentiary in the Canton of Fribourg - he was marked from an early age by the experiences of prisoners, and the environment of incarceration haunts him to this day. Rentsch was particularly disturbed by stories of prisoners who were the victims of judicial errors. He began Entangled with Justice in 2005, responding viscerally to the shock of the infamous images from Abu Ghraib. This series, which he is continuing, is a reflection on the vulnerability and oppression linked to incarceration. Born in Switzerland in 1963, Andreas Rentsch now lives in the State of New York. He was first trained at the Ecole de Photographie, Vevey, then later at the International Center