SHOOTING BACK Hester Scheurwater
“Scheurwater’s work evolves in the tradition of the self-portrait in photography. Think for example of Robert Mapplethorpe’s sexually charged visual provocations or Francesca Woodman’s erotic mise-en-scène, to name only two artists. Scheurwater‘s visual self-explorations extend the boundaries of another main topic in art history and photography: the pose. But in her pictures model and artist are one. Yes, this is sexually explicit work, but even more it is a curious and smart research about herself, where the artist looks at herself from both sides of the mirror.”
Walter Keller
Zurich based Walter Keller is co-founder of Parkett Art Magazíne, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Switzerland, and Scalo Publishers (active until 2006). He is a curator,writer, gallerist and an internationally well-known specialist of contemporary photography. He published books from Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, Boris Mikhailov, Helmut Newton and many more.
