Reihe: Kunst in der Südostschweiz

As an artist, Ester Vonplon is a border-crosser. This applies both to her use of the photographic medium and to her reflection on content, which takes her to distant places and unknown areas. The fact that she uses the one to go to the other, and that the two condition each other, proves to be a particular strength of her art. The starting point of Ester Vonplon's artistic work is always the landscape. It is not the concrete geographical location that is specific, but the fact that the landscape appears first and foremost as a malleable material and that it obeys elementary conditions: we experience rock, snow, ice, sand, desert, clouds as different states of aggregation - always very material, but always also in the form of possibility, always in motion, integrated in a continuous process of becoming and disappearing. The artist makes this process visible through photographic means, while at the same time the formation of forms in nature can be seen as the equivalent of pictorial work. Both refer to each other. In this way, Ester Vonplon walks a fine line, in which the photographic image still reflects the visible world, but in which, at the same time, the medium appears as such through a highly experimental manipulation and allows us to reflect on the particular conditions.