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Rhona Bitner’s work explores theatrical spaces through her photographs of the circus and other performative arenas.
Her photographs, though, are far from documentary even if today the circus may be seen as an appropriate subject for an archeology of spectacle. Her work is, more certainly, a reversal of the staged imagery which dominated much of the photographic practices of the past decade. For critical artists in the 70’s and 80’s the constructed or dramatized image was a tool for responding to the cultural implications of photographic representation. But today, for Rhona Bitner, the familiarity with the notion or practice of the constructed image is just an implicit part of the picture making process. This familiarity allows her to restore an empirical approach to her subject matter. Empiricism and construction are historically at opposite poles of the cultural understanding of photography – on the one hand the record of the fact, on the other hand the record of the fake. From the memory of the fake, Bitner returns to the fact.
Rhona Bitner is a native New Yorker.
She works in New York and Paris.
Rhona Bitner is also represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and by Galerie Xippas in Paris. |
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