Teän Roberts
Blue Moon #8
Photography, Twilight & Painted Skin
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper with a weight of 325gsm
678mm x 521mm
Blue Moon #17
Photography, Twilight & Painted Skin
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper with a weight of 325gsm
678mm x 521mm
Teän Roberts makes photographs of other planets populated by unearthly women, that hint at alternate modes of existing. These women climb over crystalline outcrops or lurk between granite boulders, their skin shining in the luminous twilight. They clamber through a rosy colour pallet scattered with cool metallics, their flesh scraping over rough rock edges.
To reach these alien dimensions she finds a natural place that feels otherworldly and nests a naked woman in it. [What word means the opposite of ‘abduct’? - whatever that is, that’s what she does with the women.] Sometimes she photographs a friend, but more frequently herself - and sees how their bodies glow, transforming as the sky bleeds - pink through blue - into shadow.
She photographs the way their ribs, fingers, toes, bums and elbows correlate with fissures and hollows in the land until she finds a resonating composition, and the body marries the earth.
Through these photographs she creates a portal to a world she is trying to reach. The alien women in her images exist outside constrictive earthling conditioning. Inspired by the way science fiction stories use other dimensions to mirror human follies and imagine new futures, the worlds she creates sprout possibilities for transforming our reality.
She lives and works in the Isles of Scilly, where the mysterious geology of the islands provides the point of departure for transportation to other realms.
Website: www.teanroberts.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/teanroberts