Jan Madeus · Berlin

Metamorphosis

Six diptychs. On the left a piece of fruit, whole and fresh. On the right the same piece after it has dried — same light, same distance, same frame. Nothing moves between the two images except time.

Six diptychs · Studio work · Pigment prints

Diptych: a fresh orange slice beside the same slice dried to a dark red disc — 01Orangefresh / dried

Diptych: a green kiwi slice beside the same slice dried to a grey-brown disc — 02Kiwifresh / dried

Diptych: a red bell pepper beside the same pepper shrunken and dried — 03Paprikafresh / dried

Diptych: a halved apple with its core exposed beside the same half dried and darkened — 04Applefresh / dried

Diptych: a yellow banana beside the same banana turned black — 05Bananafresh / dried

Diptych: a browning pear beside the same pear dried to a dark, folded form — 06Pearfresh / dried

About this series

Metamorphosis follows a single rule: photograph an object, wait, then photograph it again under identical conditions. What separates the two frames is time — water leaving the fruit, colour turning inward, a round form collapsing into something denser and stranger than it began.

The pair is shown as one picture rather than as before and after. Read from left to right it looks like loss; read from right to left, like a form finding its structure. Each diptych is available as an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper in a small, numbered edition.

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