Realm, from the series Kings Road, 2022
I find solace in portraying the nude as minimal and timeless, a vessel for metaphors and complexities of human nature. My work seeks to slow time, inviting viewers into the space between dreams and wakefulness, where beauty emerges as light, an enigmatic manifestation capable of enlightening us. Art, for me, is an awakening of the soul-and, a way to investigate the deeper questions about life.
For over twenty years, Mona Kuhn has explored the universality of the human condition in relationship to nature through photography. Due to sustained looking and an unhurried sense of time that is absent from today, her work can be understood within early twentieth century photography as well as contemporary figure painting. Hers are not quick snapshots, but images made through deep relationships and time spent with her subjects within constructed spaces and the outdoors.