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Nathalia Edenmont
A Moment Like This, 2018
"The booth of Swedish gallery Wetterling featured three photographs by Crimean-born provocateur Nathalia Edenmont, including A Moment Like This. Featuring a radiant woman wearing a headpiece and gown, the ensemble comprising exclusively fresh flowers, the image may look on the surface like simply a pretty photo. But peeling back each layer reveals new complexity—a female frozen in time at what most societies would consider her peak beauty, her peak moment of fertility; such are the flowers. It’s difficult not to conjure up the flora-applicable vocabulary we use for young women—fresh beauty, in full bloom, wilted, biological clock—and this photograph displays some of Edenmont’s most frequent themes: femininity, fertility, infertility, death, life, beauty, and time."
Text by Jane Gayduk