Annelies Štrba — Shades of Time

Annelies Štrba has taken the lead in recent European photography. Her photography materializes the art of perception. Pictures of her home and family keep a highly idiosyncratic record of memories, which startles outsiders with its universality: intimate domesticity, house, kitchen, sleeping children. Her composition in this publication of 290 photographs confronts the intimacy of private life not only with places of catastrophe and horror, like Kobe, Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Auschwitz, but also with melancholy, mysterious landscapes and impressionistic pictures pf pure beauty. In her essay, "Five Approaches to A.Š." Ilma Rakusa has found adequate expression for this exceptional oeuvre.

"... her pictures embody the gaze from inside out. The beholder must practice this perspective vice versa in order to apprehend the deeper meaning of these seemingly banal slices of life. The seductive pull between sensuality and intellect requires constant reassessment of one's own view of things." Neue Zürcher Zeitung