August 2021 - A Siren’s Call is a solo exhibition of abstract, experimental images by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner created during her residency at The Siren, Detroit in August 2020. The large scale, experimental transfer pigment process images are the largest images that Mara has ever created.
“I have spent my entire life trying to control every single little thing around me - often successfully, but at a great detraction to my own personal health and happiness. The only space in my life that I let go and allow “things to be” as they are is photography. In fact, I am often going in the opposite direction - I am actively chasing a lack of control in myself through my work.
Any photography that is too perfect, too particular, too measured, is completely uninteresting to me. I want to find the spaces where photography is mysterious, unpredictable, and filled with change. I view my work as a continuous set of experiments - because of that, when I “perfect” a method within the craft, I find ways to either pivot or abandon completely for fresh space. I have lived in that experimental space through creating abstractions by shooting through glass or replicating through double exposure, creating images that feel both familiar and otherworldly, a space of light and texture that cannot be easily replicated by the natural eye. I have chosen to work within abstraction due to wanting to chase a world less mundane than the one that I occupy, one where there is curiosity in any space that is observed for a little more time.”
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