"Hyperarousal" by Photographer Bettina Koller
Briefly

"Without appearing myself, I use my body as main subject of my work. Once again, I tie in with the tradition of female self-representation by journaling my increasing hair loss on 46 dated photograms over a period of one and a half years. Hair is a physical manifestation of our life and holds emotional weight and memories. The loss of hair is linked with the loss of vitality and youth. An everyday sign of aging and the transience. Collecting my hair in household jars and recording it in a diary-like feel on photograms is my strategy to cope with this and to oppose something. Hyperarousal is also about the process of creating and the conditions - when does it start, why does it stop, what happens during the periods when no photogram is created - what do voids tell?"
"For Koller, the photogram reveals materiality previously invisible to the naked eye. The result is a series of tangled nests of hair transformed by exposure onto date-stamped 4x5 inch sheets of film that represent something both physical and ethereal."
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