One Month On Skin
54cm x 62cm, b&w silver gelatine prints, framed
2014-2019

"Olena Newkryta's work deals with the indexical character of the photographic medium in its most immediate form: She asked people from her circle of friends to wear a developed but unexposed negative on their body for one month, in order to then make a photographic print of it. The visual result is therefore not due to the effects of light, but to the mechanical effects caused by friction and movement. The indexical image is thus the result of physical processes and an equally intimate and abstract testimony to a lived span of life." Verena Krieger