"Another side of me" Artwork - Limited Edition of 1

Myra Aschenbach was born in Milan on January 19th 1965. After obtaining a secondary school diploma in arts, she graduated as a scenographer from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Italy. Over the years, while persistently experimenting, she overcame that unstable boundary line which separates "documentary" photography from "artistic" photography as a representation of being; the photographic works of Myra Aschenbach often speak of environments frozen in time, of states of mind, of psychological and surreal situations, real nightmares and so on. Aschenbach is an artist who loves working in "Cycles": definitely a child of her time, she investigates contemporary themes and phenomena without any filters. In some of her works the true rawness of a situation is deliberately not spared to the viewer, like for example in the recent cycle of "Fleurs du Mal", an intense array of works, each of which "recites" a lyric from Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. The final works almost never have canonical proportions, they are often oblong, square, horizontal, vertical, etc... The "Unique" however, is not limited to the sole construction (and consequently the elaboration) of the image, but rather to a peculiar process which separates its works from the usual serial production. Myra Aschenbach, emphasizes faces, looks, and eloquent details, using a photo-luminescent white pigment, thus offering a dual interpretation to the work; the viewer is filled with restlessness when the imperceptible retouches become evident when viewed at night. They are even more pronounced when "evoked" by the use of a black light.