Sam Taylor-Johnson continues her suspended self-portraits series with an exhibition in Rome of photographs taken amidst the barren landscape of Joshua Tree
, large-scale curtains printed with desert imagery provide faux backgrounds within the brisk reality of nature. With its otherworldly quality, the Joshua Tree National Park is washed by the scorching sunlight, the barren landscape’s earthy surface dotted with ferns, cacti, and mounts of rock.
A delayed mobility inhabits each image through Taylor-Johnson’s contortions due to the clash between her crafted elevation and the gravitational pull. “Using the things that physically hold me up and the constructs that it took to create those pictures felt so imperative to stay within the story of the picture,” she adds.
Similar to indigenous desert blossoms, Taylor-Johnson rises towards the blue sky under brisk light, with the confidence of a seasoned mountaineer while radiating the vulnerability of letting go. “The trees are ancient and look like creatures coming out from the earth – nature full of character.”While Taylor-Johnson has been photographing herself suspended in air for almost two decades, the new show lets her examine the medium’s relationship with authenticity today.
“In a world where we can delete, copy and paste, and Photoshop images all so easily, this series felt it had to be truthful to what it took to suspend me in this other world,”
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