Métonomie(s)
2011
A sense of narrative, dependent on an occurrence in space and time, emerges from the photographs. However, not only do they take place at abstract, principally unspecified sites—'a forest', 'a beach', ' a desert'—they also wholly dissolve the distinction between the documentary, the staged and the imaginary.
Magnificent and grand as they may be, the works contain no epic dimension, nor a yearning for such. For Berlowitz, the plain, the ordinary, the "non event" is a marvelous space for exploration. The works blend fragments of memories, places and times, which hold a potential for violation of order and liberation, unstitching the narrative structure by blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary. The photographs create ex-territories which involve both solitude and foreignness, but at the same time contain tenderness, intimacy and the fragility of a dream. The camera work is especially exquisite, meticulous and refined, yet seems to function as still another means of camouflage. Behind the pure beauty lurks thick emotional, mental and moral darkness.
Pavo, color photograph, 100x150 cm
Girl, color photograph, 55x83 cm
Winter, color photograph, 70x100 cm
Woods, color photograph, 55x83 cm
Yasmin, color photograph, 55x83 cm
Tent, color photograph, 55x83 cm