Silvia Grav, ‘I can’t see me’, Photograph, 2014. Photo: Silvia Grav. Courtesy: http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/04/06/spooky-portraits-capture-death-ecstasy/.
‘Through careful manipulation, Silvia Grav‘s ethereal black and white images capture a psychological realm where death and fear lurk around each corner, a world beyond the material where rich blacks and blinding white tones evoke a heightened anxiety and ecstasy. In her spooky portraits, the self is blurred by smoke and transparency, as if transported from the page by some unknowable force.’Ellyn Ruddick-Sunstein in http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/04/06/spooky-portraits-capture-death-ecstasy/