"I see myself as an actor playing the role of another artist, in another medium." Sharon Core's latest work invokes a world inconceivable to modern eyes. Her photographs of compositions of fruit, flowers and meat are a direct reference to the work of Raphaelle Peale, an American painter of the late eighteenth century. Sharon Core creates careful, minutely detailed compositions using pieces of antique porcelain, fruit baskets or delicately decorated crystal glasses. The compositions also feature fruit, vegetables, flowers and blossoms from her own kitchen garden, photographed at every stage of their flowering and ripening.
In response to Cory Jacobs, curator and creative director of the Gallery at Hermès, Sharon Core examines the relationship between representation and mimesis, from a historical and aesthetic perspective. Her photographic technique immortalizes the cycle of life in sixteen strikingly Realist small-format images, shedding new light on a historic body of work by the 'early American' painters of the late nineteenth century.
