Anita la Pietra, curator of the current exhibition A Language of the Vanishing at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, says that one of the first questions people ask when they see Claudia Terstappen’s photographs of road kill is whether she moved the animals into her studio to photograph them.
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In fact, according to la Pietra, “all the animals are photographed in situ, where they died on the road.
“It is with some relish that Terstappen explains how her husband is posted to guard the road and stop traffic hurtling into her as she takes her image, sometimes even setting up and climbing a ladder to get the desired angle for the shot.
“She does this, she says, in the interests of presenting the animals as they lie, allowing them to be considered and examined in a way never possible in life.”
This amazing exhibition will run in Gallery One, at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, until November 6.
