introduction from aesthetica magazine (interview with mona kuhn & Diana Bestwish Tetteh):
“Your dreams will never, like so many, meet reality.” These are the opening lines to a break-up letter from Austrian architect Rudolph Schindler to an unnamed lover. Who was this person? This question marked the jumping off point for Mona Kuhn’s (b. 1969) series Kings Road. For over 25 years, the Brazilian-German photographer has used the lens to explore the human figure in terms of both its physical and metaphysical presence. She does this in Kings Road by bringing to life this anonymous figure through solarised prints. Here, we see Schindler’s mysterious addressee as a ghost haunting his West Hollywood home. These pieces are on now on display at Edwynn Houk Gallery in the exhibition Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism. Her work is shown alongside masters of photo-surrealism, such as Man Ray, Láslzó Moholy-Nagy, Dora Maar, Erwin Blumenfeld, and Bill Brandt. In this interview, Kuhn tells us more about the solarisation process, her intentions with this project and how she integrates architecture across her work.
