This breathtaking conceptual self-portrait photography diptych stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated by fine artist Michaela Haider. Formulated as a sequential two-panel multi-piece installation printed on museum-grade Hahnemühle Photo Rag 300g paper the artwork masterfully relies on intense studio chiaroscuro to map out an emotional narrative of physical and spiritual isolation. The visual layout flows dynamically across two staged dark worlds featuring a deeply crouched figure holding her knees in the first square mirrored by a floating curled human form suspended in an absolute void of deep midnight black space in the second frame Wrapped tightly in heavily textured white draped textiles that emulate protective cocoons.
Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs, that in their essence capture something real, to merge these aspects of reality, slowly creating something unreal and imagined, yet familiar in its story - a dreamscape, drawing from the essence underneath the surface. In her work the unspoken finds itself translated into images.
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Conceptual Self-portrait Photography - Isolation III and I 2021
Isolation III and I, 2021
Hahnemühle Photo Rag (HPR) 300g
Limited Edition.
Unframed
* Print comes with a 1 in. white border
Originally from Austria, Michaela Haider found her expression in photography at an early age. Drawing inspiration for her early works from the fields and forests, streams and rivers of the region she grew up in. After studying chemistry in Graz, Helsinki and Berlin, the scientific perspective provided even deeper insights into the unifying element of her work — the relationship between the human form and nature, and the materialistic aspect of both.
Her images depict staged worlds that pose and explore the question of this relationship from the human perspective.
Haider's works have been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Spain, and Finland.
