We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. – Kafka
Suspended Planes
TEKS Installation, Autumn 2025, Trondheim, Norway
Installation, 2015, Configurations 1.0 – 4.0, Culver City, California, United States
The photographers’ gaze intersects a subject-object conversation typified in image making. In painting and photography conversations, the implicit relationship between technology and the human body touches psychology and the realm of the ideal. Parsing the similarities and differences in the medium, relationship to comprehensions of time, space, religion, ritual are extrapolated in this installation to have an immersive experience of psychological and philosophical perspectives related to the mind-body relationship. Each configuration of this installation affords new variables to be introduced to explore relationships to the limits of viewing systems used for building knowledge in data-mapping, biology, geology, place making, and various fields of research. Hovering, pointing, focal planes, distances on viewing surfaces become physically experienced in dimensional space, inviting thoughts on the sensual fantasy of images.
Ideological conflations of interiority and exteriority as extrapolated from new-age religions exhibit the act of making observable reality into an image as an invitation to ways of looking into what photography is or can be understood as. Questioning differences between camera systems, such as single-reflex, rangefinder, mirrorless, analogue, and digital, and the experience of sensing images on surfaces or in immersive experiences are raised in this installation.
Two square planes, one clear and one glossy black surface, in a tension-suspension with twine affixed to the wall. Painted gold clamps grasp each corner of the surface, as twine slips through. The projection of hands touching themselves as light passes onto, through, and around the plane demonstrates a philosophical position on the psychological nature of photography while allowing viewers to access structures of image making, space, and temporality.
Suspended Planes is part of the Virtual Material body of work, exploiting photography while engaging in phenomenological subjects based on vision, body, time, and parietal aspects of perception. The Virtual Material body of work includes: Trânsito, Teknovisuell Experience, Souni, Fleuressence, Relatively Dimensional Still-Life, 1919 in 2017, videos, installations, as prints, projections, wall coverings, acrylic prints, garments. Contact: mariammanart@icloud.com
Materials + Video Projection(s)
1.0 Twine, nail, clamp, gold, black gloss paint, two panels of acrylic 40.64 x 40.64cm
2.0 Twine, nail, clamp, gold, black gloss paint, two panels of acrylic 40.64 x 40.64cm, projected light
3.0 Twine, nail, clamp, gold, black gloss paint, two panels of acrylic 40.64 x 40.64cm, projected video
4.0 Twine, nail, clamp, gold, black gloss paint, two panels of acrylic 40.64 x 40.64cm, projected video
