Invited with a full scholarship by Fundación´ace, artist Denise Carner Lorenzo did an Exploration micro-Residency in the early days of June, 2019 working on her ongoing subject of ephemerality in photography.

PHOTOSENSITIVE (by Denise Carner Lorenzo)

This project is about experimentation and developing on photosensitive materiality, precarious or organic. It is divided in two explorations:

Ephemeral is composed of large format chlorophyll prints. Chlorophyll printing is an alternative developing technique, where the image is printed on the leaf’s own pigmentations by the action of UV light without additives. Starting with photographic portraits found in the garbage of Buenos Aires, I proceed to copy them on the leaves of large-sized plants or trees (such as the elephant’s ear, or Adam’s rib, etc.). This project seeks to inquire the relationship between this ephemeral medium and the anonymous photographic memory that is discarded.

The second project is called Wear-out and its goal is to explore the photosensitive capacity of a precarious material such as the illustration paper used in schools. By folding and wrinkling the material I will experiment with the de-coloration of the paper by the use of UV light, where the original colours are altered without a previous process: they just fade away. The creases guard the original colour, thus making visible the imprints of the wear-out.

I’m interested in exploring the possibilities offered by a rudimentary material, how light affects and modifies it, going deeper in the materials’ mutability and their memory.