![]() She was recently part of a two person exhibition at Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester the 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica AIR Gallery, NYC, The Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City SPARC, South Pasadena, the Granary Contemporary Art Center, Ephraim, Utah as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at Klompching Gallery in New York. ![]() ![]() She has been living in Los Angeles since 2005. This aspect of the sewing emphasizes the unnatural boundaries created by the wall itself.ĭiane Meyer received a BFA in Photography from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 and an MFA in Visual Arts from The University of California, San Diego in 2002. Often the embroidered sections of the image run along the horizon line forming an unnatural separation that blocks the viewer. I was particularly interested in photographing locations where no visible traces of the actual wall remain but where one can still see subtle clues of its previous existence. The images were taken in the city center as well as the outskirts of city where I followed the former path of the wall through suburbs and forests. I am interested in the porous nature of memory as well the means by which photography transforms history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. ![]() Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph. These images are part of an on-going series of hand-sewn photographs that were taken along the entire 104 mile path of the former Berlin Wall. ![]()
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