"In Hervé Guibert's book Ghost Image, he writes about preparing to take a portrait of his mother. It's so vivid in its description. Even though the book has no images, I can envision the photograph so clearly. He goes to great lengths to ensure the image is perfect, that his mother looks a certain way. At the end of the essay, we learn that the film was blank - there is no photograph."
"For Lina Scheynius, who captured this portfolio, "photographs are like dancing ghosts". They are an extension of her memory, something that she collects and treasures as a way of preserving moments passed. She looks at the intimate and sensual through an instinctual and diaristic lens, with a recurring focus on self-portraiture that blurs the lines between vulnerability and performance. The Swedish artist has been taking photographs professionally since 2007."
Hervé Guibert's Ghost Image describes preparing a portrait of his mother, culminating in blank film and no physical photograph while the missing image is vividly imagined. Lina Scheynius regards photographs as 'dancing ghosts' and treats them as extensions of memory that preserve passed moments. Scheynius focuses on intimate, sensual, diaristic self-portraiture that blurs vulnerability and performance. She has produced 19 photobooks since 2007 and exhibited internationally. Diary of an Ending, her debut prose book, combines black-and-white photographs and essays to document the final months of a long-term relationship while exploring motherhood, home, memory, and the interplay between presence and absence.
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