Esther Teichmann
Esther’s work centres around colours, echoes and emotional response. Much of her photography and moving image explores the relationship between the self and the body, flesh and mortality. She has always been fascinated by the space between desiring and loving a person and being in love with the image, fantasy, projection of them. This difference between the fiction and the reality intrigues her and is present in both her fashion and art work.
Esther has recently completed her PhD at the RCA and made a short piece, In Search of Lightning, with a voiceover narrative that she has written. Drinking Air, published in 2011 as a limited edition interweaves several bodies of her work spanning the last six years, punctured by fragments of prose. Recent features have included an interview with 10 magazine by Skye Sherwin; an essay by Carol Mavor in Photographies, which concludes with an image from Mythologies and narrative based on the image; 100 New Artists edited by Francesca Gavin and published by Laurence King; and works included in Carol Mavor’s upcoming 2012 publications with Duke University Press and Reaktion Books. The next issue of Foam magazine includes new works alongside conversation by Aaron Schuman and Charlotte Cotton.
Esther Teichmann was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1980. In 2005 she was listed in Art Review’s top 25 new artists and Creative Review’s Creative Futures, the year she received her MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art. Esther lectures widely; she lives and works in London.
Esther’s work has been exhibited and published internationally, with group and solo shows in London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Mannheim, Modena and Melbourne. Clients include AnOther Magazine, Attitude, Dazed & Confused, Centrefold, Qvest, Swarovski and Topman.
