NEAR Artphilein Editions Elisa Medde

Elisa Medde

Sometimes you stay floating in the middle of the ocean without drowning

Curious glances radiate with sensuality

yet leaving her boy of work open to every person’s meaning-formation

an analogical work that GURCIULLO personally prints in the darkroom

NEAR Artphilein Editions Elisa MeddeUsing a modified full spectrum camera and a set of bandpass filters, Martine Stig explores her nearby environment in the near infrared and ultraviolet, wavelengths imperceptible to humans but visible to bats, bees and machines. The cameras white balance function, typically used to transfer light colour (perceived by humans) to images, cannot be used as designed. Instead, Stig used random white balance pre sets; the alien colours highlight the lack of