EVENTS
48-stunden-neukoelln
Femina Aliena
Photography
Adam Ripley
in 48 Stunden Neukölln 2026 Festival
48-stunden-neukoelln.de
Café Karanfil
Weisestraße 3
12049 Berlin
Accessible entrance
Fri., 03.07. 19:00 – Sun., 05.07. 19:00
Femina Aliena is a photographic installation by Adam Ripley. The work looks at the female body as a recognisable human form that gradually becomes visually unfamiliar. It explores how perception changes the way we see a body, and how quickly something familiar can begin to appear distant, strange or transformed.
The installation is presented as a total wall-based composition. One wall becomes a single visual field, where the photographs are arranged together as one continuous installation. Repetition, colour changes and visual comparison create a system of observation around the body.
The installation brings together photographs in natural colour with images transformed through a solarisation effect. In the colour images, the body remains closer to physical reality: skin, shape and volume are still clearly connected to the human figure. In the solarised images, this sense of familiarity begins to shift. The contours become stronger, the surface changes, and the body seems to enter another visual state.
This movement between real colour and solarised transformation is central to Femina Aliena. The “alien” quality does not come from the body itself, but from the way the image is seen and transformed. The female figure remains present, but it also becomes distant, speculative and almost non-human.
Through repetition and variation, the installation shows identity not as something fixed, but as something created through perception. Femina Aliena opens a space where femininity appears both present and estranged, familiar and transformed.
Femina Aliena
Photography
Adam Ripley
in 48 Stunden Neukölln 2026 Festival
48-stunden-neukoelln.de
Café Karanfil
Weisestraße 3
12049 Berlin
Accessible entrance
Fri., 03.07. 19:00 – Sun., 05.07. 19:00
Femina Aliena is a photographic installation by Adam Ripley. The work looks at the female body as a recognisable human form that gradually becomes visually unfamiliar. It explores how perception changes the way we see a body, and how quickly something familiar can begin to appear distant, strange or transformed.
The installation is presented as a total wall-based composition. One wall becomes a single visual field, where the photographs are arranged together as one continuous installation. Repetition, colour changes and visual comparison create a system of observation around the body.
The installation brings together photographs in natural colour with images transformed through a solarisation effect. In the colour images, the body remains closer to physical reality: skin, shape and volume are still clearly connected to the human figure. In the solarised images, this sense of familiarity begins to shift. The contours become stronger, the surface changes, and the body seems to enter another visual state.
This movement between real colour and solarised transformation is central to Femina Aliena. The “alien” quality does not come from the body itself, but from the way the image is seen and transformed. The female figure remains present, but it also becomes distant, speculative and almost non-human.
Through repetition and variation, the installation shows identity not as something fixed, but as something created through perception. Femina Aliena opens a space where femininity appears both present and estranged, familiar and transformed.
