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| Floris Neususs: Be Right Back (1984) |
"Shadow Catchers" at The V&A exhibits a variety of amazing camera-less photographic art works and techniques, but I was completely captivated by this photogram/installation by Floris Neususs.
Neususs creates images by exposing photographic paper without the use of a camera. The method produces life sized shadow-like prints which require direct contact with the paper to produce the image. These factors enhance the memorial aspect of the work – the viewer gets a definite sense that someone was there.
In “Be Right Back”, the original chair shown on the image has been placed on the paper where it was when the photogram was taken, accentuating the absence of the sitter – who has not.
The title of this particular work draws our attention to the time elapsed since the event. It becomes spooky that, as a viewer, you are looking at the exact positioning of a person who sat there over 10 years ago.
