Ramona Güntert

Iri is inspired by the phenomenon of iridescence in which the surface changes colour depending on the angle and perspective of the light. Iri  reads the same both forwards and backwards. Even though it is a scientific appearance, it’s more about the perspective, where we stand, what we see or want to see. The mix of layers, the material, the angle of the light, the transparency. 

Objects in the photographs imitate each other or mirror the next one. They create their own circular movement. Bodies are liquid, flowing from one thought to another. 

Their emptiness is draped with each other’s skin. The hollow shell is filled with fur. It’s a protection and not wanting to be seen. Becoming invisible.

Similar to the notion of camouflage, a change of appearance and its adaption of the object to the environment, like in my work through the camera, the process of making and also adding alterations to a space. The appearance becomes reality.

The outside is produced from within, the flesh growing out and over the surface of the skin where through adaptation, individuality gets lost. It’s like a touch of velvet, the slippery movement from the outside to the inside. Leaving us behind with a strange feeling. How do we perceive those forms? They shape themselves because they exist in everything and reappear in humans, in nature or animals. Bodies are like oval shapes. Or eyes in comparison to legs, shapes of fins in comparison to legs: shapes becoming yet more shapes. It is always a becoming, a form forming form from one point to the next without any ending. 

Ramona Güntert  was born in 1989, and is a German artist based in London who graduated in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2017. She is interested in the relationship between images, bodies, materials and their existence in nature. For her, photography is a physical experience and the everyday is transformed through the medium into something imaginative. Her work was exhibited in group shows The dose makes the poison and Making It Real – Alternative Photography, in London, and was part of the festivals Histoire Naturelle in Montvalent, France, and the Brighton Photo Fringe with The Unfold, in collaboration with the S.KIN collective. She was featured in Der Greif, Tjejland, Skin and Blister, Photomonitor and nominated for the Magnum Graduate Award 2017.

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