Bobby Scheidemann
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Work from Everybody is Trying.
“In Everybody is Trying I shoot intuitively to create a narrative out of my surroundings. Taking notes from cinema, I merge studio constructions and the ephemeral to alter the perception of the
present moment.
The photographs, influenced by Miroslav Holub’s essay Tissue Culture or, About the Last Cell, deal with themes of isolation and displacement. Holub writes, ‘The incongruous whisper of the last living cell: if you have time, don’t discard it; go to the microscope and look at the orphan cellular movement in the dish, and listen. You won’t hear anything that’s essential for the ear of biology, but after a while you’ll recognize that it is cosmic sound; that in spite of all the sadness of the single deserted and condemned cell, there is in its mere occurrence something optimistic for cells in general.” – Bobby Scheidemann