"The photographs of Luzia Simons give the impression of being three-dimensional, their depth of field is surprising; the matte black of the dematerialized background strongly accentuates the wondrous plasticity of the flowers. Even cut at the edge of the frame, the flowers seem to float in a diffuse space without direction, without limits.
Luzia Simons stages her flowers in a unique combination of material precision, beauty and vanity. She deconstructs conventional representations of these motifs, such as floral ornamentation, patterns or decoration, elevating them to the rank of art.
The technique she uses to do this is just as exceptional. For her arrangements of tulips made as part of the Stockage series, she does not use a camera, but a special scanner that allows her to obtain incomparable spatial depth. What makes her scanograms so special is the effect produced by the pollen that falls on the glass plate of the scanner: instead of the classic vertical-horizontal division of a two-dimensional image, the works of Luzia Simons emphasize a tangible foreground that takes the viewer away from a floral dream without defined space and time. These works oscillate between extreme closeness and extreme distance, questioning the limits of our reality."
Excerpt from an essay by Matthias Harder
Luzia Simons was born in Quixada, Brazil and is a graduate in History and Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She continued her studies in Stuttgart and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her works appear in public and private collections around the globe, among them Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin; Fonds National d Art Contemporain, France; Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba; Pirelli/ Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Dansk Bibliotekscenter, Denmark.