Helena Petersen
@helena_petersenhttps://helena-petersen.com/
Born 1987 in Munich. Lives and works in Berlin and Melbourne.
What happens after a shot has been fired? What happens when a city is immediately wiped out by a natural disaster? In her work, Helena Petersen traces the moment of fate, influenced by human or natural violence. She pauses at the scene and picks up the traces, which are translated into the photographic process and made visible through her individually developed methods, mostly cameraless. However, image creation is by the unpredictable, arbitrary, beyond the control of the artist. She captures and fixes what otherwise disappears. The serial way of working is not a scientific comparison, but rather distinguishes the different effects of arbitrariness.
What happens after a shot has been fired? What happens when a city is immediately wiped out by a natural disaster? In her work, Helena Petersen traces the moment of fate, influenced by human or natural violence. She pauses at the scene and picks up the traces, which are translated into the photographic process and made visible through her individually developed methods, mostly cameraless. However, image creation is by the unpredictable, arbitrary, beyond the control of the artist. She captures and fixes what otherwise disappears. The serial way of working is not a scientific comparison, but rather distinguishes the different effects of arbitrariness.
