I find the smell of my ghosts and the weight of absence. The muddy water goes moving on and on until everything disappears, except the stars.
Brenda’s photographs have a painterly and calligraphic quality. Some are high in contrast, some landscapes are hardly visible through the mist, light saturates the prints. The edges of the images bleed in to the white paper so that the landscape appears to emerge directly from the page. Grasses and reeds distended in the reflection of water, the fog gently reveals the ground beneath it while the bright winter light flares through the trees, and glances off waves. Brenda Hoffman’s enigmatic photographs of the Delta del Tigre, are where Brenda spent her childhood. Revisiting the Rio de la Plata, in person, sailing up the river, or visiting vicariously through these photographs, she describes the river opening haunting memories.
Brenda Hoffman was born in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; she lives and works in Paris. In 2003 Brenda obtained the Paris Youth Adventures scholarship, funded by the city of Paris. In 2010, she was awarded 1st Prize at the Festival Photo Saint-Germain-des-Pres. Her work is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Tigre, Buenos Aires. Her works have been exhibited at jaggedart since 2014.