| The New York Optimist October 2008 |
| About my work Since I can remember I have been fascinated with fairy- and folk tales. I appreciated how they brought into existence the possibility of an entire parallel universe at the end of my fingertips. A universe full of beauty and magic, a world that offers an escape to the reality we live in. To children it must seem like Utopia; justice and truth always prevail and evil stepmothers get their due punishment. Yet on a deeper level we can see the dark and the eerie within the fairy tale, as clearly as we are aware; Utopias do not work. Utopias are doomed to fall, just as fairy tales are there to frighten us as much as they entice. After, Ever-After! is a compilation of different bodies of work united and bound together through common visual connotations from these tales: e.g. Little Red Riding Hood - both in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 1/3' and in `So As I Might See You Better 1/3' - or Cinderella, in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 3/3' While looking at the image an underlying story slowly emerges, creeping up on the observer, almost like a shadow in a darkened alleyway. The girly Wellington boot in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 3/3' for example, could be seen as the remains of a horrific crime and cruelty or simply as the shoe the princess lost on the stairs after escaping from the ball. It is the underlying, the hidden emotions that interest me. The Fear, deep rooted in us all, Anxiety and Paranoia - the real and the imaginary - buried deep within. |
Flavia Sollner
| We have no reason to harbour any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers we must try to love them. And if we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience" --Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Flavia Sollner News & Print 23rd - March 08 I will be represented at the Milan Art Fair by Gallery Jarach MiArt ArtNow! 08 04/07.04.2008 Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea link to MiArt 20th - January 08 Italian Marie Claire published an interview with me and the "Pink Umbrella" image in their January 2008 issue. the interview is on page 105 (click on image to see larger view) WELTKUNST 12/2007 Walter Auf Dem Steine published on pages 6-7 Weltkunst Daylesford Foto Biennale 2007 june 2nd - july st The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was Solo show at Galleri BQ - hosted by Blomqvist Kunsthandel 5-22 Januar 2006 Contact Flavia |
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