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S H A N N O N E B N E R
Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, now.

when language fails.

Images point to what is in the world; that is the problem with representation. I think that is why there has been so much activity around abstraction—it offers one possible way around the problem of pictures. I am looking for a way out of the problems of representation but I am not satisfied to leave the world of representation all together. I am somehow looking to stay in the world of depictive images by simply asking for more from them through developing a different system, idea or model of how they might function.


–Shannon Ebner, October 2009

Los Angeles artist, Shannon Ebner, now showing in Italy. To those that are new to her work, go here, to take a look.

Seriously looking forward to more work in the future.....





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"Over the past five years, Ebner has mined the porous territory of language by photographing words and letters that she both finds and makes in environments ranging from the landscape around Los Angeles to the space of the artist's studio.

In more recent photographic works, Ebner seeks to broaden her investigation of language to include the linguistic potential of the photograph itself, moving away from photographing politically charged words and phrases towards the construction of a mercurial visual system that includes images, objects, wallpaper applications of text phrases and videos.

In a broad sense, Ebner's work can be seen as an ongoing investigation of visual and photographic semiotics that relies on depiction while also rejecting the notion that a photograph must be exactly or only what we say it is and in turn what it depicts."

Shannon Ebner,
born in Englewood, NJ, in 1971, lives /works in Los Angeles






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S H A N N O N E B N E R
Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, now.

when language fails.