/ 2013 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait
Ohnmacht
Ohnmacht is a photographic narrative of a character, myself, undergoing a surreal, fantastic and dreamlike journey. The environments I am traveling through are stripped of time and the characters I encounter (the painter, the dancing pigs, the cone-headed creature and the invisible dog that is preying on me in form of a shadow) are otherworldly.
The theatrical sensibility and the use of miniature, staged here on the TV made out of cardboard, is a gateway into a more abstracted description of human experience that brings the representation into a more poetic realm. Time implodes into itself, portraying human experiences as a vertical journey between existential planes. It is presented in a dream state, rather than as a linear timeline existing in our waking conscious life.
The images are cinematic and my photographic process is a way of entertainment, wonder and surprise. For the past 15 years I have been working in self-portraiture. As humans we have the need to step out of our daily lives. We view a movie or read a book. My work is an attempt to do just that, I am telling stories through my photographs and I am trying to transport the viewer onto another plane.
Cornelia Hediger is a Swiss artist living and working in New York City. She was awarded both her BFA and MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Hediger’s work has been exhibited in both solo shows and/or group exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery, Philidelphia; DEAR Photography, Hamburg, Germany; Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin, Germany; Mart Photography Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Wallspace Gallery, Seattle; The Center for Photography at Woodstock; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Klompching Gallery.
Awards Moscow International Foto Awards 1st Place in Fine Art Photography (2018), IPA 3rd Place in Fine Art /Collage Photography (2018), Tokyo International Foto Awards 2016 Silver Winner (2016), PDN’S 30: 30 Emerging Photographers to watch (2009)