Paris London Hong Kong is proud to present Mirror Lamp Hammer a new series of photograms by Anthea Behm. An opening reception will be held on November 3rd from 5-8pm.

Behm’s photograms engage the connections between two seemingly distinct media: drawing, characterized by gesture and the artist’s hand, and photography, an ostensibly objective representation of the world around us. To make these camera-less, silver gelatin prints, the artist exposes photographic paper to light, and then draws images—primarily sourced from the internet—on the paper using developer solution. The print then goes through a conventional darkroom photography process: stop bath, fixer, and wash.

Represented here are the everyday things whose given reality we take for granted: pockets, shoes, politics, language. In these images, they are shown to exist not solely as objects to be reflected in a photographic instant (as in a mirror), nor merely as the subjective illumination of our minds (as if we created the world through the lamp of our imagination). The world we experience is rather an entanglement of the subjective and the objective, the analog and the digital, the formed and the formless. And our visions, like hammers, maintain the power to reshape and reimagine the forms of our existence.

Behm received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program; the Core Program, Museum of Fine Art Houston; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Kaleidoscope, and Art & Australia, and her writing has been published in Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference.  Behm has recently exhibited at the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, Smack Mellon, New York, and the Orlando Museum of Art. She currently teaches at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and is represented by Minerva, Sydney.