Lola Pertsowsky’s (°1988, FR) body of work primarily takes the form of photographs, occasionally accompanied by small sculptures, video, or sound. Her work questions the intricate relationship between human and non-human.
The series Still from Home documents details of domestic life in and about the house of her mother and other places she once lived. Objects, animals, and plants seem to lead their own lives and interact with one another. Hinting at Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto, this collection of photographs evokes the idea that significant otherness is perhaps not exclusively implicit in the living but as well in the inanimate.
A fly gulping breakfast’s leftovers, dishes waiting to be done, a carved-out piece of butter, half a lemon, a smartphone, and a colony of ants all cohabit in the sphere of the home. Through these intimate encounters, arrangements, and interplay on scale, the series questions the way things coexist and what they tell about us.
