Doppelgänger — Cornelia Hediger
September 10 — October 31

OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: SEPTEMBER 10, 6pm — 8pm

KLOMPCHING GALLERY is pleased to announce the exhibition Doppelgänger, by Swiss artist CORNELIA HEDIGER. This is the artist’s solo gallery debut in New York City.

In this richly colorful series, the persona of the artist is the central figure, performing a psychological struggle with her doppelgänger — a fictional ghostly double of a living person, widely understood as sinister and a harbinger of bad luck. These striking images will amuse, challenge, intrigue and captivate the viewer.

Each image is constructed from six to nine photographs, employing a device which is increasingly prevalent in contemporary photography — that of the tableau-vivant, in which a pictorial narrative is carefully choreographed into a single image. Through the presentation of different characters, Hediger explores notions of the uncanny, the conscious / unconscious and moral ambiguity — perceptively juxtaposed with a fine-drawn level of dry humor.

Hediger’s photo assemblages present stories that are also fascinating for their obliqueness, enabling the viewer to invest some of their own narrative interpretations. Her storytelling demonstrates more than a hint of literary and pyschological theory, and it is this that makes her photographs all the more compelling. These internalised depictions of illusory spaces and scenarios oblige us to draw comparisons to the work of Claude Cahun, Francesca Woodman and even Hans Bellmer.

Cornelia Hediger was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has been exhibited widely in the US, as well as internationally. Cornelia Hediger lives and works in New York City.