Laetitia Heisler - Visual Artist | Analog Photographer - Hamburg

28.11.24 - 08.12.24: Group exhibiton “BBA One Shot Award” at Kühlhaus - Berlin (DE)

16.11.24: "Absalon” at Copenhagen Photo Festival - Copenhagen (DK)

25.10 – 30.11.24: Group exhibition "Salon” at Stills Center for Photography - Edinburgh (UK)

19.10 – 02.02.25: Solo exhibition "Humanoid Vegetalis Stories” at Haus der Fotografie - Husum (DE)

13.09 – 22.09.24: Group exhibition "Nature exposed” curated by Loosenart at Millepiani - Rome (IT)

03.08 – 14.09.24: Group exhibition "Nature" at Glasgow Gallery of Photography (UK)

04.07 -31.07.24: Group exhibition "Yellow" at Glasgow Gallery of Photography (UK)

02.07.24: Projection of one photograph “Gladiatrices” Les Rencontres d’Arles (FR)

14.06 - 31.07.24: Solo exhibition at Kulturstation - Rodenaes (DE)

01.03 - 25.03.24: Group exhibition at Analog Art Photography - Leipzig (DE)

07.04 - 30.04.23: Digital exhibition at Akron Gallery - Trondheim (NOR)

10.03.23: Duo exhibition “Art Night” at Pack & Schnack - Niebüll (DE)

04.01.23: Online exhibition : ‘Art of Illusion - Analog Forever Magazine currated bi L.Toboz’

• 09.24: Article in Petty Magazine

• 08.24: "The Issue" in The Luna Collective Magazine

• 07.24: Interview in Lomography web Magazine

• 07.24: “Humanoid Vegetalis” picture in Die Zeit

• 06.24: Article in the Wochenschau

• 05.24: "Golden Number" picture in The Luna Collective Magazine

• 04.24: Article in Optiko Journal

• 03.24: "Behind organs" picture in Analog Forever Magazine

• 12.23: Interview in Analog Forever Magazine

• 11.23: Interview in Lomography Magazine

• 12.22: Interview in Lomography Magazine

• 12.22: TV Show "Comeback der Analogen Fotografie" SAT 1

• 11.22: Article in Trois Points Magazine

• 09.22: Interview in Lomography Magazine

• 09.22: Interview in Alter Analog

• 01.21: Interview in Lomography Magazine
  
  

• 11.24: “MBP AWARD” Nominee

• 11.24: BBA “ONE SHOT AWARD” Nominee - Longlisted 12/50 (DE)

• 07.24: Lomography x Copenhagen Photo Festival "ENTANGLEMENT" Grand Prize Worldwide (DK)

• 05.24: "GLADIATRICES" award Wipplay x On Stage Festival (FR)

• 10.23: Lomography Awards "TEN AND ONE" (AT)

• 12.22: Instant Photography “NOW OR NEVER” award (AT)

• 12.22: Award « BFI X Lomography : IN DREAMS ARE MONSTERS » Second Price (AT)
  
  

“Through the interplay of opposites highlighted in her work, Laetitia Heisler takes a critical look at the way our societies sometimes push us to construct a binary and clear way of thinking. As she writes:

« I try to evoke a range of emotions, highlighting the duality between insecurity and power, inviting people to appropriate the images.10 »

The artist presents an iconographic discourse that invites us to observe the world with nuance. She encourages us to see and reflect on reality by presenting a dichotomous vision, exploring the very essence of dichotomy.

Originally, this word refers to the construction of contrasting thought based on radical oppositions, but it also describes a mode of plant branching that supports development and growth—similar to the way Heisler’s work unfolds.

In the case of Angry About My Womb Condition, dichotomy, or opposition, is central to the genesis of this piece. The composition is split, reflecting two different truths coexisting in the same space. The image forces us to choose between observing one scene or the other. Yet, when we step back, a third interpretation emerges, instead of focusing on the superimposition of the images, we see their fusion, revealing a new reality.”

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Lorry Besana, October 2024 - Art curator & agent

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“...I think Heisler is such an admirable dreamer, and of course, it was Man Ray in the 1920s that, in his Parisian darkroom, began experimenting with double exposures and created his famous “rayographs”.

Heisler’s floral self-portraits are exquisite, sensitively composed, and bursting with emotion and lyrical vibrations. Her oeuvre is very dream-like and exudes a sort of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ world. I admire her statment that “I put the film in hot water with flowes and soap and let dry for months before shooting.”

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Laetitia Heisler is a consummate artist, working alone in her darkroom, always experimenting, and keeping alive the tradition of Man Ray and his ilk in the 1920s and 30s. This is an artist that I will continue to follow. And as she herself wrote: “The best picture is the one you will never be able to capture!” Well, I think that perhaps she has?”

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Anthony Fawcett, March 2024
Art curator