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Susan Derges

The River Taw “Restored” and other works.

April 30 – June 24, 2022.

Susan Derges (born 1955) lives and works on Dartmoor in the south west corner of England. A key member of the British movement that saw a revival of the photogram in the 90s, Derges took cameraless photography to new and unexpected places with a freshness of scale, color, and concept.

Danziger Gallery is pleased to present a selection of Susan Derges’ work concerning the relationship between photography, water, and the environment. Perhaps best known for her photograms capturing the continuous movement of river water and plant life by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers at night and flashing the paper with a strobe light, Derges has taken photography’s earliest origins into the realms of contemporary art. For over four decades she has consistently found new ways to express her personal preoccupations with both nature and photography in a constantly evolving body of compelling, diverse imagery.

This show marks the first American presentation of Derges&rs

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Susan Derges

Susan Derges, born in Londoon in 1955, is a British photographer living and working in Devon. Derges studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. A recipient of the Rotary Foundation Award, Derges lived in Japan for six years, and continued her postgraduate studies. After returning to the UK, Derges first began experimenting with abstraction, and then turned to photography. She eventually shifted to camera-less photography, the exposure of images directly onto photographic paper, typically resulting in a negative shadow image, after experiencing dissatisfaction with the way in which the physical camera disconnected the subject from the viewer.

Derges’s 1991 series The Observer and the Observed explored the relationship between object and viewer, and art and science. Propelling a jet of water through the air, Derges used a strobe light to capture the suspended lens-like droplets set against a blurred image of her own face. During the 1990s, Derges became particularly known for her camera-less photographs or photograms o

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Much of the work of Susan Derges (born 1955, London, UK) revolves around the creation of visual metaphors, exploring the relationship between the observer and the observed; the self and nature or the imagined and the 'real'. She endeavours to manifest or capture invisible scientific and natural processes - the physical appearance of sound vibration, the evolution of frogspawn or the cycles of the moon. Characteristically, her practice has involved cameraless, lens-based, digital and reinvented photographic processes, and encompasses subject matter informed by landscape and abstraction as well as the physical and biological sciences. She is perhaps best known for her pioneering technique of capturing the continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers or shorelines. Often creating work at night, she works with the light of the moon and a hand-held torch to expose images directly onto light sensitive paper.

'The artist Susan Derges engages with such transformative themes in her treatment of elemental forces, testing the inter-relation