Of a Body, created during Wasse’s recent teaching residency abroad, explores these concerns with new visual strategies. The artist describes these organic, highly abstract self-portraits as a search for a personal typography. The images become individual letters in a loving, expressive photo-body language.

            To make these works, Wasse employs three elements: his nude body; a camera with a strong black diffusion lens typically intended for creating soft, idealized landscape photographs; and a room flooded with natural light. Bathed in intense light and rendered with a shallow depth of field, Wasse’s elemental poses become glowing, painterly blurs. These mysterious images emerge from a near-total dissolution of the distinctionbetween figure and ground.

The work was produced with the support of Artport Tel Aviv