“Rotms_zur_3” presents a standing nude figure so dissolved into grain that the image reads less as a photograph than as a surface in the process of erasure. The body is present — just barely. What surrounds it is not empty space but density: a field of noise from which the figure can barely be distinguished. The subject of the work is not the body, but the threshold — the point at which a presence begins to disappear into its own representation.
The print is made on handmade Himalayan paper of 20 g/m2, a paper that is no longer in production. Each sheet is physically unique: variations in fibre, texture, and surface are inherent to the material and irreproducible. This is not a convention of the edition — it is a material fact. The paper is suspended within an open ash wood frame with Optium Museum Acrylic, crafted by hand in Zurich. Two small clips, visible at the top edge, hold the sheet without fixing it: the paper floats within the frame as the figure floats within the image. No mount, no backing, no glass laid over the surface — the work is present in the room in direct contact with the light around it.
“Rotms_zur_3” is a unique variant, limited to 7 copies and 2 AP, signed and numbered by the artist. Because the paper is no longer in production and each sheet differs physically from the next, no two copies of this work are materially identical. First presented at the “Edition Artist #01” exhibition at blackprint, Zurich, in 2018, the work was most recently shown at PhotoBasel 2025.
