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Open Equations

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:43:00 +0000

In her recent work Open Equations, Laura J. Padgett continues her exploration into public and private space and the places in between. The way in which we structure and delineate our environment is always an expression of our relationship to society and is coincident to the visual. In many situations the gaze replaces our physical ability to enter a particular location.
The artist’s main theme remains photography’s ability to depict things while fostering conceptual narratives that can be experienced by means of perception.
How do we understand surfaces and space? How do we consciously negotiate these complex conditions? The visible, lines, colors, shapes and structures also express peoples’ relationships to their immediate surroundings and living conditions. The photographs open up these spaces, making them navigable.

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Regenerating Permanence

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:42:37 +0000

The spaces we create have meaning. These spaces are surrounded or enclosed by structures that most definitely have meaning. What we tend not to recognize at first glance are the echoes of those who occupy and use these spaces. Still, they are there, they are palpable. Laura J. Padgett Laura has spent time in Frankfurt’s Westend Synagogue recording resonances, taking in the echoes of those who inhabit and use this place, making images between space, structure, spirit and time. Through her photographs, we experience what resilience can be and how it manifests itself in the presence of objects, marks and traces.

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Confined Space

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:04:01 +0000

This body of work of Laura J. Padgett was taken during several travels across the Libanon. It is an artist’s view of space, form and detail and at the same time a record. A record of the atmosphere of a place. On their own, these photographs may appear elusive, abstract, out-of-place. As a whole, the series… Continue reading Confined Space

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