We are friends for more than 20 years and since we started to both work on photography and collages, we said we would create a project together called FROM B to B, the 2 B´s for the 2 cities where we are respectively living: Berlin and Brussels.
The lockdown period gave us the opportunity to develop this idea.
The „Correspondence“ project is our first FROM B to B realisation.
During this long time at home, everyone had the opportunity to follow online classes or workshops.
One of them called „stretching your creative muscles“ organised by C/O Berlin was about a weekly challenge in photography during one month. Sophie proposed to Caroline to make the weekly challenge in parallel and send it to each other when it was ready. One instruction and 2 different artistic and visual approaches. The conversation between the 2 artists with lots of parallel in the language. 
That what we are translating in this common project„Correspondence“  in which we present pictures of 3 of the challenges we have been working on. We decided to chose one picture of every serie each and create a dialogue between them. Two visions from here and there, with an artistic significance.

The 1st challenge was to photograpy a bench or a chair and to tell a story about this one single object in minimum 10 pictures
PIX 1: Sophie chose a bench along a canal in Berlin as Caro chose to photography a chair at her home, her son´s baby chair. The composition is containing an outside and an inside. The public is facing the intimate. 
The 2nd challenge was to make pictures in the style of an artist, and there was 3 of them. Without knowing it we chose the same one: Ellsworth Kelly who was making pictures with geometrical form to inspire his paintings.
PIX 2: Caro took a picture of a facade in her neighbourhood and Sophie a wall paper in an abandoned factory. In our compostion the concrete geometrical forms of the house´s facade are overwritten with the abastract form of the torn wall paper, creating a strong effect close to a painting, which references the work of Ellsworth Kelly.
The 3rd challenge was to make a self-portrait.
PIX 3: Caro´s son (an extension of herself) is facing Sophie reading in her livingroom. This double self-portrait has a realistic and symbolic approach. It is a visual face to face inviting to connect with our innerchild.

 


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