Miriam Böhm
Lives in Berlin, Germany and Mannheim, Germany
Perception and space are the central themes of Miriam Böhm’s photography. The photograph is here not just an end result, but is also integrated into the work as an object. By positioning a photograph in a photograph, Miriam Böhm creates stage-like spaces that are almost always lined with some kind of fabric. Miriam Böhm lays open the process of rearranging and interlacing, thereby foregoing any photographic illusion. The resulting clarity, however, soon turns out to be misleading. In her works, Miriam Böhm confounds and confuses the beholder and his habits of seeing. Because of her play with perspectives, the work can be interpreted from various directions. The two-dimensional medium photography is, through being reproduced and staggered in the picture, transferred into a three-dimensionality which is, in the final photograph, once again returned to a two-dimensionality. “The repeated surprise of Böhm’s work lies in the heavy pressure she places on the gap between object documentation and image reproduction, the way she places photographs, quite literally, between those modes of recording”, as quoted by Brendan Fay in artforum 2011.
