Sanne Peper - Great Smokey Mountains, Tennessee, 2009

Inkjet print
Signed, dated and numbered on a label
40,9 x 27,2 cm
Edition of 100

About the work
This work was published in the prizewinning book Due to Lack of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled, that was published in 2015. In collaboration with graphic designer Michaël Snitker, Peper has made this book about the iconography of the Deep South of the U.S. The book project Due to Lack of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled deals with the universal fear of dying and with our desire to understand and bridge the gap between ourselves and the unknown. We try to fill this potentially dangerous conceptual void with — amongst several other things — storytelling, science, art and religion. Peper uses some of these to try to comprehend and make visible something fictional and immaterial. 

This publication is part of a larger work in progress. It’s the provisional outcome of a project that has taken quite a while to find its final destination. Peper tends to do that – she reads, researches and photographs a subject so extensively that it becomes a challenge to distinguish its essentials. Like with kudzu, an invasive vine that covers large parts of the southern states and kills everything in its path, she gets entangled in an information overload.

About the photographer 
Sanne Peper (Amsterdam, 1963) graduated in visual arts and photography from ArtEZ in Arnhem (NL). Her professional practice is based on two pillars, with theater photography on the one hand, and long-term work on autonomous projects in which she relates to the world on the other. She is interested in subjects that are difficult to photograph and, at best, require a cautious approach and depiction, such as xenophobia, religion, violence, the sublime, the atomic bomb, fear of nature and the meaning and influence of history and politics. The main medium is photography, but this is increasingly supplemented by language. Image and text complement each other, but what is created between the two creates an extra space - the area that is open to interpretation by the viewer/reader.

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