• ISBN13: 9783967570021
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Talissa Mehringer
• Publisher Imprint: Talissa Mehringer
• Publication Date: March 3, 2020
• Pages: 68
• Original Price: USD 25.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 241 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial

"Cemetery Whispers" is a photographic exploration of the New Public Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary documenting its beauty through photomontages and close-ups of insignificant details otherwise overlooked. Macro scenes of dead branches and broken glass amplify their meaning in the context of their environment where faux bouquets live forever but people pass away.

Silk flowers mimic cast-iron roses and melancholy statues guard mementos of the deceased. Fallen leaves and wilted vines draped over marble-slab graves are a tangible reminder of the inevitable cycle...

Old wooden crosses aged by years of rain, wind and snow stand overgrown and forgotten. The details in the microcosm of the cemetery reveal hints of life left behind and life just passing through- a feather teeters on a branch and a tree consumes a woman made of stone.

Mehringer, Talissa: - Talissa Mehringer is a German/Mexican multimedia artist currently based in Berlin. Daughter of anthropologists, she was fortunate to travel extensively as a child. At the age of six, she was initiated into the Canela tribe of Brazil during a village ceremony surrounded by the lush green of the Amazon. Later her family would move to Tanzania where she was allowed to witness and participate in ceremonial festivities of the Maasai people. The beautiful sound of their singing and terracotta-red dyed fabrics, colorful beaded jewelry and elaborate hairstyles were incredibly inspiring to her young mind. These early life experiences ignited a deep passion for adventure, history and quest for knowledge. The surreal + theatrical style which has become her trademark was developed while studying film and media arts in New York. Her photography work is cinematic in that the pages of her books unfold frame by frame weaving visual narratives through phantasmagoric spaces and environments. Her work has been exhibited at festivals + galleries internationally across the U.S. and Europe. www.TalissaMehringer.com