Floris Neususs

Untitled, Photogram, Berlin, 1962

Untitled, Photogram, Kassel, 1967

Floris Neususs is one of the artists currently exhibiting at Shadow Catchers.   Neususs has devoted his career to the investigation and teaching of the photogram, pushing the concept to the limits.  I have created small scale photograms by placing objects over photographic paper and exposing it to light, but they do not compare to the intensity of Neususs’ work.  He shows a new ambition in scale and the visual treatment of a photogram, often dealing with opposites in his work; black and white, shadow and light, movement and stillness, presence and absence.  His playful life-size photograms of people express sexual and sensual connotations, as the person seems trapped in a suspended state in each photogram.  Seeing the images as a collective creates a poetic dialogue between presence and absence drawing the viewer in.  I enjoyed the stillness of the images though which the essence of movement could be perceived.