Nadja Bournonville - Intercepted

Following on from her previous work, A Conversion Act (Fotohof 2012), Nadja Bournonville picks up the trail of a spy story that occurred in her own family during the First World War in her new artist's book entitled Intercepted. Referencing the disappearance of the writing on twelve postcards treated with special ink which the protagonist, Lady Eva von Bournonville, had smuggled in, the artist unleashes a veritable firework of alienations from her photographic source materials. Entirely in keeping with the ideas of Surrealism the artist uses photograms, dyes, reversals, double-exposures, negative prints, and etched surfaces. Old techniques complement this humorous interaction that knows no bounds, shifting enigmatically between fact and fiction.