Katinka Goldberg, 2014
The Birdnest, 2014
Created by Katinka Goldberg in 2014. The artwork is printed on Canson platine fiber rag - glossy - 310g, mounted on dibond and displayed at 100 x 70 cm.
Comparing The Birdnest to The Hair, another of Katinka Goldberg’s works from the series Bristningar, what stands out (other than the difference in palette) is the difference in distance. Instead of a close-up that fills the entire frame, The Birdnest shows a small, cut-out photo piece in the middle of a blue plane. On the cut-out, we can distinguish the same kind of hair as in The Hair, as well as a fragment of a face. Bristningar, the series that this photo is part of, is the second entry in a trilogy in which Katinka Goldberg investigates her relationship with her family in a poetic manner. The Swedish term Bristningar literally translates to “striae” (stripes in the skin caused by stretching), but it also has the more figurative meaning of “shortcomings”. The series consists of collages created by Goldberg that depict the tension between closeness and distance and, in a process of healing, deconstruct the body and put it back together. The question she keeps asking herself is: how much can you take away from yourself without disappearing completely?
© Katinka Goldberg, courtesy of the Foam Collection
