After Dark
Sandy Volz
Revolver
Text by Michael Glasmeier.
Softcover
88 pages
245 x 195 mm
2012
ISBN 9783868952322
After Dark is a monograph of work by German-American artist Sandy Volz. It affords a comprehensive insight into Volz’s photographic fascination with the ambiguous. She consistently focuses on the “becalmed accessories” of locations and events, although the spatial and narrative relationships of what she portrays remain obscure. She does, however, make clear reference to the painterly traditions of the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the early Baroque. Volz’s photographic stagings open spaces of associative ambiguity, in her chiaroscuro images a continent of speechlessness can be made out—an insistent silence in darkness somewhere among tension, melancholy, and timelessness. Her settings and characters reject the cultural constructs of self-assurance supplied by the familiar or the unknown. The four series published in this volume (Hearts of Darkness, Innenleben, Me and the Others, and Stranger) explicitly avoid focusing on the understanding and knowledge that result from glimpsing interiors and interactions, but rather seek to approach the unknown via conjecture and supposition. The plates are accompanied by a six-page essay by author and curator Michael Glasmeier, who suggests an art historical positioning: ‘The photographs do not prepare us for any sudden shift in insight; they remain as they are, as they were destined, to conceal things. This is their unusual, quiet, resistive quality in times of loud, noisy addiction to assertion and self-fulfillment.’
(source: https://placartphoto.com/book/71/after_dark_(signed)-sandy_volz)
About the Artist
Sandy Volz is a German-American photographer and artist based in Berlin.
sandyvolz.com
About the Publisher
Founded in 1998 by Christoph Keller (under the name Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), the independent publisher’s programme consists of publications such as catalogues, special editions and theoretical writings from the fields of art, photography, architecture, design, and theory.
revolver-publishing.com
(source: https://revolver-publishing.com/ueber/)
