HESTER SCHEURWATER
SHOOTING BACK

Limited Edition Artist’s Book. Edited by Walter Keller.
Published by Gerber & Keller Zurich / Switzerland

250 copies, each with an original print, both book and print signed and numbered. With an artist’s statement and an afterword by Walter Keller.

“The tension between what is happening inside my head and how I act on the outside is what my work is about, the border between private and public. In trying to reach this frontier I make use of my own body and show fantasy self-images. Indoctrinated, obsessed and fascinated by this view of the ‘sensual seductive’ woman as a sex object, I try, almost obsessively, to comply with this image, by self-portraits. These fantasy images are reminiscent of desires, fears, temptation, seduction, violence and sex. Self-images as a sex object, but devoid of any commercial frills, knowing I can never compete nor live up to the image. The mirrored self-images are my way of reacting on the imitated and fake media images, which are constantly calling upon our imagination, without intending to be taken too seriously. I try to deconstruct this call’s effect with my reactions by switching the ‘subject-object’ relationship, without being victimised by it.

Within my research I have several ways of exploring the boundaries between public and private. In the ‘Self-obsessed’ iPhone series I explore my own limitations and fantasy images. In the context of this presentation in the Facebook/Website space, the exhibitionist nature of my images is enhanced by the environment, which is the converging of exhibitionism and voyeurism, in the living room-to-living room ‘upload’.“

“Scheurwater’s work evolves in the tradition of the self-portrait in photography. Think for example of Robert Mapplethorpe’s sexually charged visual provocations or Francesca Woodman’s erotic mise-en-scène, to name only two artists. Scheurwater‘s visual self-explorations extend the boundaries of another main topic in art history and photography: the pose. But in her pictures model and artist are one. Yes, this is sexually explicit work, but even more it is a curious and smart research about herself, where the artist looks at herself from both sides of the mirror.” Walter Keller

Hardcover with linen, 112 pages, 23 x 30 cm, appr. 115 color and b/w photographs, Limited Edition of 250 copies (no reprint possible). All copies with a signed and numbered inkjet print (see illustration on preceding page), printed on Hahnemühle. 135.00 Euro, shipping not included. Published by Gerber & Keller, Zurich.

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