Annette Kelm

The color photos by this Berlin artist are hard to define, since they not only encompass traditional photographic categories—such as portraiture, still life and landscape—but also venture beyond into pure abstraction, as well as repeating series of images that suggest some conceptual linkage. All her photos share the sort of slick, large-format appearance usually associated with commercial photography. Her works are metaformal in that they allude to all manner of recent developments in contemporary photography (Hilla and Bernd Bechers's taxonomic approach to subject matter? Check. Wolfgang Tillmans's use of varied scale and formats? Double check), while disassociating themselves from any of their meanings.