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Annick Ligtermoet was recommended to us by Pyhai and by Melanie McWhorter.
Pyhai: The photographs of Annick transport me to a nostalgic, timeless world in which I can set aside the hecticness of my daily life for a moment. The way she captures her subjects – be it portraits of solemn people, pensive birds or poetic, deserted landscapes – is slightly unsettling, but at the same time very delicate and touching. It is this tension that keeps me returning to her work.
Melanie: Like Ilse Frech and Natascha Libbert, Annick Ligtermoet is another of the fine students who have studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague. Ligtermoet, like both of these women uses her photography to explore the idea of place and culture. But Ligtermoet’s photographs stand aside from the aforementioned artists’ work in the fact that it is more nostalgic, more romantic, more (excuse the triteness of this word, but…) mysterious. Her photos, even though taken in contemporary Russia, reflect back to an earlier Soviet era. These “Russian fairytales-based photos” are taken in a world where it seems that not much is allowed to change because of the cold, the same cold that appears to illuminated each frame fixing each scene in a cloud of timelessness.
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According to Russian pagan beliefs, apart from ‘reservation,’ Zapovedniy also means ‘mysterious ban’ on remote areas, supposedly inhabited by unusual creatures.
By means of sacrifices, the local population tries to stay on friendly terms with these supernatural creatures.
But, no one really saw one of those alleged creatures, and nobody ever talks about the matter.
In the series Moscow becomes the aforementioned mysterious area.
The tension one can feel in the streets of Moscow, be it as a visitor or an inhabitant, is being translated into surreal images that were taken in contemporary Russia.
The familiar present is completely absent: in the Russian fairytales-based photos, mundane reality has become unrecognizable.
The new reality, which is a result of that, has several levels. Situations which have been found as they were, are combined with staged images; images which are sometimes founded in the realm of the imagination.
Nothing is what it seems to be and the beholder won’t be offered one firm grip in his search for the truth.
This project was made possible by Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Annick Ligtermoet (1983) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Click weblink annickligtermoet.com or browse our archives
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