Aftermath

Aftermath is a photographic series that explores fragility, resilience, and the silence that follows chaos. Set in a frozen, desolate landscape, the images trace a solitary walk through the night, where the stark contrasts of black and white reflect an emotional state of isolation, memory, and slow transformation. The world appears frozen in time-shadows stretching over icy streets, reflections breaking on glass-like surfaces, fragments of something lost yet lingering. The absence of warmth is palpable, the cold seeping into every surface, every pause between light and darkness.

Amidst this monochrome stillness, red emerges-subtle at first, then insistent. It disrupts the silence, a pulse of life within the emptiness. The walk deepens, the landscape becoming more abstract, as surfaces blur, dissolve, and shift between presence and absence.

This work responds to the curatorial prompt "What (Dis)Appears" by meditating on what is overlooked in the aftermath of rupture – not the event itself, but the emotional sediment left behind. The visual language of absence, obscurity, and emergence speaks to the way certain emotions, memories, or traumas remain latent, only surfacing through subtle traces. In this way, the red elements act as a metaphorical developer: revealing what lies beneath the cold, controlled surface of monochrome, as if something previously invisible is asserting its presence.

Bohle was chosen by our Community Manager and Program Curator to participate in one of our Face-to-Face portfolio feedback sessions with our Guest Room Curator Jo. Trujillo Argüelles.

"The feedback with Jo Trujillo Argüelles was very helpful in understanding my practice as a cohesive narrative across three completed projects. It was insightful not only to discuss the submitted work, but also to present additional projects and view them as a unified whole. My practice focuses primarily on artist books, and I now see Inner Landscapes, Aftermath, and Why Is Myself a Desert as a trilogy. The session also encouraged me to reconsider image sizing and spatial arrangement."

- Bohle's testimonial on her “Face-to-Face” Session