Untitled Interior (deer couch), 2010
Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff
Untitled Interior (telescopes), 2011
Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff
Untitled Interior (fur wall), 2012
Photograph @ Sarah Malakoff
“Sarah Malakoff’s large-format photographs of domestic interiors appear
at once familiar and strange. In her exquisite and psychologically
resonant images, the rooms become both a refuge from and a reinvention
of the world outside. As Linda Benedict-Jones writes in her introduction
to Malakoff's book "Second Nature" published by Charta, “.....we walk
through rooms large and small where brightly patterned curtains and dark
wood paneling take over, as canoes become coffee tables and living
rooms accommodate tree trunks....Each space is carefully transcribed in
the warm vocabulary of contemporary color photographs, creating an
ensemble greater than the sum of its parts.” Boundaries between inside
and outside, shelter and vulnerability, the real and the imagined all
become blurred. Malakoff’s formally precise compositions set the stage
for viewers to imagine the characters that reside within.” I was fortunate to meet Sarah Malakoff at the 2015 Photolucida Portfolio Review in Portland, Orego. You can view her work this summer in Brooklyn on Photoville's 2015 FENCE.
"Second Nature" by Sarah Malakoff
(Publisher: Charta)
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