Johanna
Encrantz
johanna encrantz ist
fotografin und
künstlerin
contact: www.vfgonline.ch/johannaencrantz
fon: +41 78 775 81
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Mail:
johanna.encrantz@bluewin.ch
‚By
plucking her petals
you do not gather
the beauty of the
flower.‘
Rabindranath Tagore,
Stray Birds
Junge
Mädchen wissen, dass
sie schön sind. Sie
stehen selbstbewusst
und zugleich
selbstvergessen vor
der Kamera. Die
Bilder sind Teil
einer Serie über
Mädchen, die ich
2011 mit Kindern im
Teenie Alter
begonnen habe. Es
geht um das Spiel
mit der Pose, der
Spiegelung von innen
und aussen. Und
umdie Idee von
(weiblic her!)
Schönheit und Sein.
Hanna and I
These pictures are
about my grandmother
and some of the
traces she left in
my mind.
Hanna was a dear,
openminded woman
with a flower-garden
which was lit up by
many colours almoust
all the year round.
It was this liking
of colours,
specially pink,
gold, light blue and
even white together
with a vivid
interest in design
which let her create
all her wonderful
dresses and
garments.
All this happened
although Hanna was
at this time a young
widow with tree
minor children
carrying on the
general-store
business left by her
husband.
I loved Hanna, I was
her only grandchild
and she used to call
me ‚Fraueli‘.
In the meantime she
had moved to the
greater Zürich area
where she must have
felt rather lonely.
But she found a new
interest: all by
herself she often
travelled to the
seaside in Italy,
although she could
not swim. I am sure
she must have been
fascinated by the
colours and forms,
this time the ones
of the
Mediterranean, its
changing of the
light during the
day. All the
movements of the
sea, revealing the
shades in the water,
fancy forms and
colours of the
shells and stones. I
vividly imagine her
floating donned with
inflatable
water-wings in the
low waters of the
sandy beach.
Pigmentdruck auf
Fotopapier,
50x50cm,
MF analog Diapositiv
6x6cm, 2011
