Lucia Heumann

Artist Representation
D-Land, Hamburg

Lucia Heumann takes photos with an analog and manual camera, she develops her films herself in order to get the most real and haptic experience possible with the photos. The choice to make most of her photos in black and white, makes her photograph seem to come from another time. Lucia Heumann prefers shots taken outdoors, in the street, among people. An example of this is the photograph entitled "Stairs" in which is portrayed a man who climbs the stairs, perhaps about to go home or perhaps to go to work. This type of photo allows the viewer to create with the imagination stories and characters. "Stairs" is a dynamic photograph, thanks to the blurred effect that Lucia Heumann brilliantly uses. The perceived dynamism can only make us think of the studies of the Futurist Italian artists of the early twentieth century. In particular we remember the photodynamism of Anton Giulio Bragaglia, in which the vibration and the essence of the gesture emerge. The same mode can be found in Lucia Heumann’s photographs entitled "Train" and "Cups". In particular, the latter depicts cups in flight in which the movement is the protagonist. The camera is used as a means of tracing the complexity and trajectory of the movement. Heumann’s ability is to reproduce what the human eye is missing. She captures in a photograph the suspension of a movement: The train before it disappears from view, the cups before they fall and shatter on the ground. This invites and allows the viewer to dwell on the moments, on the fleeting life, on what a moment before you can have and a second after there is no more.
Text: Giorgia Massari

Languages: German