STRANGE JUXTAPOSITIONS: THE FUNNY AND UNSETTLING
PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMBERA WELLMANN

August 07, 2017
Paul Gallagher
www.dangerousminds.net

It all started out as a bit of fun when artist Ambera Wellmann “plunked” an egg into a watermelon. The strangely irrational satisfaction Wellmann felt when combining these two foods started her visual investigation into juxtaposing unlikely objects together. The end results have been described as funny, creepy, and even “gross.” Take, for example, the toilet with a wig which looks like Donald Trump. Or, noodles sprouting from a bikini line making us think about pubic hair. Or what about the close-up of seemingly wrinkled hand with a bra sketched which becomes some grand dame by a pool in Miami?

The best artists make the viewer see the world anew. Ambera Wellmann certainly does this. She takes her photographs quickly using whatever objects she has to hand. This usually means food, clothes and her own body…

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Ambera Wellmann
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