Candida Höfer
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
February 20 - March 22, 2003
Candida Höfer's photographs continue her careful cataloguing of public urban interiors. The absence of people in her pictures allows viewers to focus on the specifics of architecture, decorative and functional elements, furniture and other indicators of human engineering and aesthetic choice that reveal much about the absent choosers and users of the spaces. Besides the basic features of the rooms are the accidental relationships - amusing , surreal, ironic - that occur. Examples are the sad scene of a lone vase of flowers waving to a circle of chairs who appear to have turned their backs, and the rolling specimen tables unsure how to proceed in with a room full of similar tables lined up like soldiers.
Candida Höfer exhibits her work internationally and recently was included in Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany. A traveling survey show in the United States is currently being organized by the Norton Museum of Art and the California State University, Long Beach, University Art Museum.
RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY
77 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
