Tina Lechner, Susan told me
Tina Lechner's work consists of a timeless amalgam of styles, techniques and cultural references that make her work unique and stand out. She manages to unite two opposing discourses - photography as object and photography as image - and in doing so rejects the binary of “either-or” in favor of Ernst Gombrich's concept of “either-and”. Although her anachronistic visual language refers back to the twenties and thirties of the 20th century, her modification of precisely this visual codification makes it unique. Tina Lechner explores identities and the representation of subjectivities with her camera and develops an apocalyptic vision of late (post-)modernity in her analog photographs. While the photographs capture strong surfaces - exploring the full range of possibilities of B&W photography - the human body is enveloped by specially produced props in a deliberately unsettling way. Although the female body is always the nucleus of her work, it is transformed into retrofuturistic sculptures that undermine the cultural construction of femininity, combining magical and cyborg elements, blurring the line between the human and the inanimate.
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