PARALLEL
BUDS
Buds / 2021 / Ditone pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta / 26.8cm x 23cm / edition of 5
Arms are emerging from the tree trunks and stumped branches. Like Daphne fleeing the advances of Apollo, these arms have been immobilised, trapped, petrified. At the same time, they seem excited and encouraging, perhaps waving jubilantly. The arms are stuck within the tree, within the photograph, between the animate and inanimate, between defiant movement and paralysis.
Buds was inspired by Claude Cahun’s Je tends la bras.
INTERIOR
Interior / 2021/ Ditone pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta / 11cm x 14cm / edition of 5
A houseplant and a set of nesting coffee tables with matching crochet table mats are positioned on a fitted carpet. A ceramic coffee set (pot, sugar bowl, milk jug, two cups and two saucers) is placed on the mats. Special touches make a home.
"Stenram is consistently interested in space, ominous interior settings and environments that conjure a certain sense of claustrophobia..."
- Charlotte Jansen
ECTOPLASMIC
Alluvion / Ectoplasmic / 2021 / Ditone pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta / 50cm x 50cm / edition of 5
Alluvion / Ectoplasmic was inspired by photographs of ectoplasm emerging from mediums, in particular Harry Price's photographs of Scottish medium Helen Duncan.
GARDEN STATE
Garden State (199) / 2019 / Archival Pigment Print on Canson, Infinity Paltine, Fibre Rag / 40.6cm x 30.5cm / edition of 25
A lush spring landscape with blossoming flowers, a small stream or pond and two interlocking arms. The arms lean in on each other, offering mutual support, gesturing towards a utopian intimacy. Garden State combines body parts culled from vintage erotica magazines with an image taken from a vintage gardening book bought in a dime store. The material is old and nostalgic, but simultaneously looks for a future of companionship, perhaps a desire to merge not just with each other, but with space itself.