Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Vernal Unfolding
Multiple exposures of color negatives and plant specimens of Fagus sylvatica on C-print size variable
Promising Premises, Bärenzwinger, 2023

The work Vernal Unfolding is inspired by Eva-Fiore Kovacovskys experience of the taste and color of the first fresh beech leaves in spring and the moment when trees start to photosynthesis after winter. She gleaned her photographic and plant speciment archive for the exhibition Promising Premises at Bärenzwinger and created new works, consisting of photograms made in the darkroom, using color negatives, dried plant specimens and branches of the common beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). The traces of leaves and double exposures, hint at a new beginning, yet leave space for what is about to grow. Hanging throughout the middle and left cage of the Baerenzwinger, one can walk throughout Kovacovskys work like a forest. She inverts light, traces shapes on paper and exposes her findings over and over, until imprinted in us, while leaving room for us to wonder, wander. (Text by Lusin Reinsch und Cleo Wächter)