Annelies Štrba

Noonday

Annelies Štrba, best known for photographs of her children, now brings pictures of her grandchildren. In this “noonday dream” (a reference to Emily Brontë), we encounter a host of fairytale creatures, playing, sleeping, or dreaming. The viewer is drawn in and becomes part of this reverie, which is interspersed with images of everyday family life, travel, and game-playing. While the images in the artist’s previous series, “Shades of Time” (1997), were raw and direct, “Noonday” glows with the ease of a summer afternoon and yet leaves us with the melancholy certainty that the days of childhood pass by much too fast.

Annelies Štrba, best known for photographs of her children, now brings pictures of her grandchildren. In this “noonday dream” (a reference to Emily Brontë), we encounter a host of fairytale creatures, playing, sleeping, or dreaming. The viewer is drawn in and becomes part of this reverie, which is interspersed with images of everyday family life, travel, and game-playing. While the images in the artist’s previous series, “Shades of Time” (1997), were raw and direct, “Noonday” glows with the ease of a summer afternoon and yet leaves us with the melancholy certainty that the days of childhood pass by much too fast.

Author(s): Annelies Štrba

Edited by Lars Müller

With a contribution by Elisa Tamaschke

Design: Integral Lars Müller and Natascha Kuhn

17 x 24 cm, 6 ¾ x 9 ½ in

336 pages, 295 illustrations

hardback

2015, 978-3-03778-388-7, German
English
CHF 45.00

Annelies Štrba

Photo Annelies Strba

Annelies Štrba (*1947) is a Swiss photo and video artist. She completed her photographic training in 1966 and had her first exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in 1990. At that time, Štrba's photographic œuvre already comprised over 10,000 photographs that she had taken since the early 1960s. In her work, Štrba explores possibilities of subjective experiences and memories becoming images. Her works are represented in international collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland and Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection, Germany, among others.