Simone Rosenbauer has filtered her views of the self, fleeting moments and chequered memories in her photographic series, ‘Like Ice in the Sunshine.’ The German-born, Bondi-based photographer takes the happy simplicity of an ice block in the sun to capture moments loved and lost, to dwell on ephemeral experiences and to chart the strength and frailty of changing identities.
Leaving the natural sun to shape a mix of perennially loved paddle pops, ice becomes liquid, pooling around the melting whole. Colours merge, others separate, some creep away from their host. Flaking, sloughing, gently seeping – each and every body tells a different tale.
Bondi Pavilion
10 to 21 December, 2014
Sydney
Like Ice in the Sunshine #4, 2014, printed as archival pigment print, 85 x 85cm. Ed of 8
Courtesy the artist
