Part of Michaela Haider’s critically acclaimed body of work, this unique creation completely strips away digital artifice, choosing instead an authoritarian chiaroscuro setup inside an absolute black environment void to isolate a heavily contracted female silhouette. The composition bypasses descriptive narrative, focusing entirely on the extreme tactile contrast between the organic ridges of the spinal column and the crisp, sculptural boundaries of white translucent drapery. This calculated aesthetic friction translates severe internal states of psychological pressure into an undeniable architectural gravity that interacts with ambient light.
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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Expressionist Fine Art Photography - Isolation II, 2021. By Michaela Haider
Isolation II, 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.
