Adam Fuss: Daguerreotypes
In Fuss’s daguerreotype works, ethereal images seem to float on polished silver plates. In the mirrored surface of the works, positive and negative values shift, imbuing the subjects with a delicate presence.
In Fuss’s daguerreotype works, ethereal images seem to float on polished silver plates. In the mirrored surface of the works, positive and negative values shift, imbuing the subjects with a delicate presence.
In Fuss’s daguerreotype works, ethereal images seem to float on polished silver plates. In the mirrored surface of the works, positive and negative values shift, imbuing the subjects with a delicate presence.
In a series of prints, Fuss considers Theia, the name given to a hypothetical planet that may have violently crashed into the Earth billions of years ago, ejecting the debris which formed our moon. Theia is also the Greek goddess of sight, prophecy, and brilliance, who is thought to endow gems and gold with their visible glimmer and intrinsic value.
The fluidity of water is a recurring motif in Fuss’s work. Recording single droplets or tumbling cascades, his photograms register the many possibilities of movement and reverberation, resulting in images rife with potential meaning.
The artist’s enigmatic cameraless photographs convey a sense of wonder at the natural world, and the ineffable mystery at what lies beyond.
This collection explores Fuss’s ongoing study of flowers, a subject rich with symbolic associations as mementos to the past, or harbingers of a future hope.