September 5-25, 2020
The Slide Room Gallery is pleased to introduce you to visual artist and photographer Sandrine Elberg (Paris, France). Her art practice invites us to explore a complex and devised universe teeming with distant galaxies, planets and asteroids. She uses landscapes, objects and constructed environments in her photographic practice to create otherworldly images. Bordering on the relm of abstraction and lacking reference to human presence or scale, Sandrine’s work invites us to have a closer look.
STAR SHIP TRIP by Sandrine Elberg
Artist Statement
I seek to establish a poetic relationship between the myth and iconography of the cosmos and its elements, where true and false aspects intertwine between fiction appropriation and distant fascination. Influenced by the Surrealists, I experiment with the consistency of the photographic medium, expanding its technical and aesthetic possibilities. My attraction to distant journeys is influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth and From the Earth to the Moon, and Georges Méliès movies. I seek inspiration from interesting landscapes and hostile climates to create lunar photographs from my imagination. When I am not traveling, I work in the darkroom creating experiments with light and chemicals.
Biography
Sandrine Elberg Graduated with a Master degree level from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts in Paris (2003), MFA Digital Media Art at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver (Canada) in 2001 and a second-year university level at Sorbonne (1997).
She is represented by Fisheye Gallery Paris/Arles (France) and has participated in over 100 exhibitions in France, United States, Russia, Korea, Singapore, Greece and Peru. After her first photobook “Cosmic”, Sandrine Elberg published “M.O.O.N” in 2019, her second monograph dedicated to Valentina Terechkova, the first woman in Space. These books also mark the fiftieth anniversary of man’s first step on the Moon on July 21, 1969.
For more about Sandrine Elberg’s work, check out her Instagram & website.
We also recomend having a look at Sandrine’s latest work, JÖKULL.
“Jökull is a tribute to the sublime, to the glaciers of Iceland with their faults, scars, swirls, moulins and crevices. The different points of view are shown under the moon and the starry skies of the island for an invitation to contemplation and dreaming. This artwork contributes poetically to the memory of glaciers, awareness of fragility of natural sites and intended for the future generation.” Sandrine Elberg
STAR SHIP TRIP by Sandrine Elberg
Thank you for viewing STAR SHIP TRIP, a digital exhibition by Sandrine Elberg. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Please stay tuned for new exhibitions coming soon.
©Sandrine Elberg. Images courtesy of the artist.
