"Reading Woman"

pigment-based inkjet print

signed, titled, dated and numbered (pencil) on verso

In her small-format photography "Reading Woman", motifs from literature and the visual arts are combined. On the one hand, "Reading Woman" ties in with a tradition of art history: The depiction of reading women. An armchair, whose shadow has been trickyly created, serves as a seat for the reader. The missing shadow of the reader alludes to the motif of the lost shadow; the main motif of countless folk and art fairy tales.
(Liddy Scheffknecht)

Time is a strange concept. It becomes within subjective perception unpredictable. Sometimes it slips through your fingers like fine sand. And sometimes it seems as if time got stuck, it stands still. The idea of an “absolute, true and mathematical time,” which Isaac Newton formulated at the end of the 17th century, a time, “which in it’s own nature, passes equably without relation to anything external” becomes a mockery, when seconds, minutes, hours, days don’t seem to pass – nothing happening is worth remembering.
To measure time, to notice it passing at all, needs something that changes, something that moves, ideally continuously, constantly like the hands of a clock; or, like the sun changing position in the sky as the Earth orbits it.
Liddy Scheffknecht made the sun her accomplice. With its help she investigates ways to visualize the course of things, and temporality as such. In her current exhibition at Georg Kargl Box, Scheffknecht presents new works on paper and a group of earlier sculptures in glass. 
(Beate Scheder)