Pycnogonum, 2023
Notes from Curator
Amber integrates photography and sculpture to examine the themes of memory and beauty. She repurposes images sourced from eBay listings of flower cuttings - photographs taken out of practicality rather than artistic intent - and by changing their original function they become an artifact of the mundane.
By spotlighting these everyday images, Amber critiques the oversaturation of visual content in our modern day digital landscape while rediscovering and amplifying the inherent beauty within. Nostalgia permeates her work. Encasing these photographs in glass introduces a layer of fragility, underscoring both the delicate nature of memory and the transient beauty of the subjects.
Amber Toplisek
I am an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Atlanta, GA.
In my work, I think about the network of images that exist within me, acting as an imperceptible alchemy that bond and bend me toward its will. By embedding once-immaterial images within tangible structures, my intention is to amplify their potential to coalesce into the viewer’s physical body. This phenomenological experience is further explored by various tactics of obfuscation between the viewer and the image. My work plays with different transparencies and employs both kinetic and still interventions in order to prolong an encounter with the photographic image.