Anna Vovan | Letters (slid under a door)

Anna Vovan is a guest at the photo lab of Klub Solitaer. The residency will be introduced by the exhibition Letters (slid under a door). In it, the Leipzig-based artist examines the role of language as a mediator between inner and outer reality. She is interested in the moment when interpersonal communication fails and a gap opens up between speaking and understanding, thinking and saying. Her works are located in this intermediate space. She uses experimental photographic techniques such as photograms or lumen prints to capture the pre-linguistic and unspeakable in images.

The eponymous work Letters (slid under a door) consists of analogue photographic paper that has been pushed halfway through the gap under a door like letters and exposed to the available light. In these photograms, which have become letters, language and text dissolve into light and atmosphere.

Anna Vovan (*1980 in Ettenheim) lives and works in Leipzig. She studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has been a member of the producer gallery Galerie b2_in Leipzig since 2012. Her work has been exhibited at Spriten Kunsthall Skien (NOR), Gfzk Leipzig, Kunsthaus Potsdam and Kunsthaus Baselland, among others. in 2023 she will receive the NEUSTARTplus Arbeistsstipendium from the Stiftung Kunstfonds.

The residency and exhibition are supported by the Kulturbetrieb der Stadt Chemnitz.