The Incoherent Light

Notes on Photography

Antje Peters

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In a contemporary context, modes of representation and consumption are largely interchangeable. Antje Peters appropriates a vocabulary of “commercial” styles as a means of questioning how an image is able to communicate a certain intent. But her subjects are purposefully decontextualized to reveal the values that might otherwise condition their use. Once unmoored, these supposedly familiar stylistic tropes begin to appear decidedly strange.

“Instead of approaching these procedural steps as expected, my action might be more evident, or less correct. As opposed to painting, which is considered to be an accumulation of a set of decisions, photography is classically thought of as a picture made by a single decision […] For me, the state of the photograph is much more in the physical object and I tend to think about all of these steps as stages of production.”
- Focus Interview: Lucas Blalock

“Instead of approaching these procedural steps as expected, my action might be more evident, or less correct. As opposed to painting, which is considered to be an accumulation of a set of decisions, photography is classically thought of as a picture made by a single decision […] For me, the state of the photograph is much more in the physical object and I tend to think about all of these steps as stages of production.”

- Focus Interview: Lucas Blalock