Interested in how people relate to space, and how the three dimensional world could be reconciled with the two dimensions of the photograph, Francesca Woodman played complex games of hide-and-seek with her camera.
She depicts herself fading into a flat plane, becoming the wall under the wallpaper, part of the floor, or sealed behind glass, constantly contrasting the fragility and vulnerability of her own body with the strength of the objects around her. Caught in a state of metamorphosis, she is not quite here, nor quite there.
Her body becomes an expressive tool which mingles with the other objects she chooses to photograph; gloves, eels, sheets, mirrors, fireplaces and flowers. Fascinated by limits and boundaries, Woodman's work conjures the precarious moment between adolescence and adulthood; between existence and the ultimate disappearance, death.
Francesca Woodman's photographies are at the Ingleby Gallery (till 13.6.2009) and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (till 18.11.2009), both based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
