28-31 OCTOBER 2010 @ The RAG factory E1
Off brick lane london
Where you left me
'Where you left me' is a hauntingly beautiful collection of polaroids filled with ambivalent emotion. Like the best jazz records that seduce us with their sound before we fully understand their content, Andrea Schraven's polaroids seduce us first with their contrasting colours and formalist shapes. After that we notice that very particular North American light and on the third viewing we start to read the emotion in German-born Schraven's images. Boredom, curiosity, fascination, and admiration for certain spaces and architectural forms, but also ambivalence, loneliness, and longing play their part. This is a collection of images to be treasured, the more you invest in them, the more they will reward you, so dip your cup deep and drink often.

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