Ida Nissen

The photographer waits for the disappearance of the image. Disappearance through visual and sensorial abstraction is the powerful work that Ida Nissen presents with depth. Closing the circle, in this collective experience, she proposes a return of photography that is an advance: photography as sculpture, photography as matter and light, its 

links to a certain magic and ghostly features (that in the beginning of the medium were more present), and to geology and chemistry as well. In a world where all processes are accelerated and mediated by vertical screens where the order of discourse is mastered, she places us to look at something that disappears, like us, during the exhibition.

Ida Nissen born in 1986 in Denmark, based in London, UK. Works with analogue processes across still life, darkroom- and in-camera experimentations. In her recent work, images are created entirely in the bellow hood of the camera. Via paper masks she builds the motif from the layering of exposures on the negative. Rotations of lines and shapes act as a springboard to play with the dynamics of two and three dimensions, and the idea of digital and handmade processes. Ida holds a BFA from Valand Academy and is currently a master student at the Royal College of Art.