Eva-Maria Raab

_ABOUT A gust of wind that sets the ears of corn in the field in motion, a slowly melting drop of ice – nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. The present of the past inscribed directly on light-sensitive paper and set in a frame. Since 2015, Eva-Maria Raab has been exploring elementary questions about the creation of an image and the possibility of capturing ephemeral phenomena using the photographic printing process of cyanotype. She experiments with negative and positive, light and shadow, the visible and the invisible - challenging us to see the familiar in a new light. Raab‘s works can be read as a reference to the existence of the objects, whose molecules are imprinted on the paper as shadows of themselves. Tangible on paper and yet only the trace of what was there before. She works with borrowed images from nature. Like a mirror, she places the light-sensitive paper in the landscape, attaching it to vines or wetting it with seawater. Movement, object, year, season and time of day are left to inscribe themselves poetically onto the paper. _BIOGRAPHY Eva-Maria Raab (*1983) is an Austrian artist based in Vienna and Lower Austria. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2010) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2007). Raab’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout Austria (Museum Krems), France (Galerie Roanne de Saint Laurent 2024 in Paris, Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz 2022 and 2023 in Arles) Switzerland (Photobastei Zurich), Sweden, Australia (RMIT School of Art Gallery) and Germany (Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen). In 2014, she received the Culture Award of Lower Austria in the category of media art; her work is part of public and private art collections such as the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, the collection of the federal chancellery of Austria, the Lower and Upper Austrian Art Collection, and the SpallART Collection.