Mona Kuhn

Contemporary photographer Mona Kuhn introduces her latest series, the abstract-slanting She Disappeared Into Complete Silence, in which modern architectural lines and the human form mingle against the California desert background.--Marie Look "C Magazine"
In a new publication from Steidl, She Disappeared into Complete Silence, the practitioner takes fresh steps into abstraction. Set against a backdrop of the expansive Californian desert, it taps into our relationship with the environment - connecting interior and exterior worlds through layering and refraction.--Miss Rosen "Aesthetica"
In She Disappeared into Complete Silence (Steidl), Kuhn takes Paul Nash's Landscape from a Dream (1936-38) as her departure point and delves into the realm of photography to explore the surreal, symbolic realm of the California desert landscape, her model Jacintha, and elements of architecture to organize chaos.--Miss Rosen "Feature Shoot"
Kuhn's She Disappeared into Complete Silence proves the artist is a maestra with the lens and a sorceress in the desert; she shrinks Jacintha into glittering nothingness, a mere memory of the female form.--Amy Schatz "Musee"
She Disappeared Into Complete Silence is an experimental project shot in Acido Dorado, a reflective house in the middle of the Californian desert designed by American architect Robert Stone. Inside it are mirrored ceilings and walls, which refract sheets of golden desert light that flood the house. Here, Kuhn presents a solitary nude on the edge of the desert, removed from any symbols of time, creating "an abstraction of being," and "a space where our mind resides".--Marigold Warner "British Journal of Photography"
Timeless and trippy, the photographs are testimony to the unique effects of the desert environment - a place for deep enquiry and to ruminate on the essence of being human.--Charlotte Jansen "Wallpaper"