ABOUT

“Photography is the only deductive art, every other art that I can think of begins with a tabula rasa, a blank sheet or a paper. Photography begins with a world that is perhaps overfull and needs to sort out from that world what is meaningful.”
Baltz, 2012.

The purity of shape and the absence of place has become a strong theme throughout Chloe’s work.
Whilst exploring the estates she grew up around, she began to photograph the blandness of the architecture. The anonymous forms began to overwhelm the images, filling the frame, their surroundings obsolete. The removal of any identifying qualities to the images became Chloe’s main fixation, creating a place without a name.
In some ways the work echoes the architecture onto which it is made, reflecting the flat-pack style housing with its uniformity that juxtaposes the richness of life inside.
Chloe’s obsessive removal of anything other than the shape itself creates an aesthetic isolation of the architecture onto which she makes work.
It is an exploration of form, ruled by a neurotic demand to empty the image of self.