[PR] Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored' 

Throughout her work, Esther Teichmann explores the visceral quality of the human psyche
and skin. Silently Mirrored brings together a series of photographs and fi lm installations that examine the relationship of the self to the maternal body and to the body of the lover. Both relationships evoke desire and fascination as well as the fear of separation and abandonment, and it these emotions that the artist confronts us with.

The bodies within Teichmann’s images are almost close enough to touch, yet are held at a distance by the inherent aspects of the photographic medium and surface. Like the mother’s skin, seen by the infant as a fragmented surface, and like the lover’s skin, too close to focus on, so each image demands the spectator to negotiate their own relationship to it.

Silently Mirrored is Teichmann’s first solo exhibition and concludes a busy year of group exhibitions including Storytelling at Man&Eve and a collaborative project with Spartacus Chetwynd to produce The Esthacus Teichwynd Photos at Galerie Giti Nourbaksh in Berlin. Her work has also been selected for Nature and Society, a group exhibition in Croatia showing at The Dubrovnik Museum and The Glyptotheque, Zagreb, curated by Robin Mason and also featuring work by artists including John Stezaker, Andrew Grassie, Jo Stockham, Alastair Mackie, Ian Kiaer and Daniel Baker.

A catalogue, with an introductory essay by Carol Mavor is being published in association
with Silently Mirrored and Teichmann will be giving a talk about her work at Man&Eve
on Thursday 20th September at 7.30 pm. Tickets can be reserved by emailing info@manandeve.co.uk.

Man&Eve will also be presenting Esther Teichmann’s work as part of a selection of work by
gallery artists at Year07 art projects, is at County Hall in London from 11th – 14th October.

Teichmann was born in Germany in 1980 and moved to Britain in 1998. She received a
Masters of Fine Art from the Royal College of Art in 2005, and continues to live and work
in London. She was listed among Art Review’s top 25 new artists in 2005 and her work
has been featured in publications including Camera Austria, Capricious, Creative Review,
Dazed&Confused, Hotshoe, I-D, V&A Magazine and Wallpaper.