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The title of American photographer Alec Soth\u2019s new project, which is currently on view at Berlin\u2019s LOOCK Galerie<\/a>, comes from a poem called The Gray Room<\/i> by Wallace Stevens. In the short poem, a room where a person resides is described in succinct but telling detail \u2014 as it turns out it is not grey at all, but actually embroidered with colour: green, red, white, the yellow of the forsythia. The final line of the poem provides Soth\u2019s wounding title: \u201cI know how furiously your heart is beating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevens\u2019 poem does not just offer an affecting title, but the episode described in the poem \u2014 of watching another person from a distance and trying to understand them \u2014 is key to Soth\u2019s approach to photography in this series too. \u201cWhen I revisited this poem I thought that this exactly describes what I’m trying to do, which is, to have this experience of being in the space of the person and looking at them in the space, admiring all the beautiful things that I see,\u201d Soth tells SLEEK at the Berlin gallery. \u201cAnd simultaneously questioning what’s happening with the other person. Those things that I can’t see and just feeling that energy amidst all this beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

This description is revealing as regard his latest series, widely regarded as Soth’s most “poetic” yet. I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating<\/i>\u00a0consists of a slim selection of 35 photographs, which have been collected in a book of the same name published by MACK<\/a>. Meanwhile, the exhibition at LOOCK is one of four concurrent exhibitions<\/a>\u00a0under the same title, which opened at different venues this past month.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75517,"id":75517,"title":"","filename":"So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","filesize":203802,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-6\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Michelle. Berlin. 2018 ","name":"3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-6","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 12:50:56","modified":"2019-04-02 13:12:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1875,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1875,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1875,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1875,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1875,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-013-e1554209736369.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1875}},{"ID":75518,"id":75518,"title":"","filename":"So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","filesize":368378,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-7\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Birds of America. Minneapolis. 2018 ","name":"3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 12:51:17","modified":"2019-04-02 13:11:51","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1875,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1875,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1875,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1875,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1875,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-015-e1554209766204.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1875}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Since the publication of his breakthrough book, Sleeping By the Mississippi <\/i>in 2004, Soth has achieved idol status in photography circles. Sleeping By the Mississippi<\/i> was a landmark project: a melancholic portrait of the forgotten American coastline unwound through a series of tender portraits, interiors and gloomy landscapes. In comparison, I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating <\/i>offers a quieter \u2014 but none the less potent \u2014 insight into the intricacies of humanity. It is neither journalistic nor epic in cinematic proportions as his previous projects such as\u00a0Sleeping by the Mississippi <\/i>and his most recent series\u00a0Songbook <\/i>were, but is concerned with something as Soth says himself \u201cinarticulable.\u201d In interviews about his new work, Soth, who is based in Minnesota, has mentioned that he finds it difficult to condense the project into a few buzzwords, \u201ca one sentence thing that you can say to satisfy a journalist or audience.\u201d He continues, “I think the reason it’s harder to articulate is that it’s more about these inarticulable things like energy than it is about even about \u2018poetry\u2019. \u2018Poetry\u2019 suggests language, whereas I’m talking more about a physical quality, a physical exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n

I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating <\/i>sheds the informational and the geographical pinpoint (many of Soth\u2019s projects, such as Sleeping by the<\/i> Mississippi<\/i> and Niagara<\/i> pivot on the conditions of a specific place). \u201cIt was conceived of in opposition to that structure,\u201d says Soth. \u201cTrying to bring things to something more simple and pure.\u201d It is in essence non-narrative, instead finding illuminating smatters of coherency here and there through accidental motifs: flowers, birds and birdcages, tattered books and tattooed skin.<\/p>\n

The reason for the project\u2019s change in direction resulted from a personal change of heart. According to Soth, he got hung up on the ethical issues surrounding taking another person\u2019s photograph and intended to stay in Minnesota, retreat and \u201cjust look at the light.\u201d Soth admits, \u201cIt always seemed a little problematic that I was using these people for my own art.\u201d He didn\u2019t want to \u201cjust drive down the street and grab people.\u201d As in his previous series, almost all of the sitters in I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating<\/i> are strangers, but this time he arranged meetings with them beforehand, giving his subjects time to research him and decide more fully whether they would like to be apart of the project. And he did, as he says, \u201cfeel better about it.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75515,"id":75515,"title":"","filename":"So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","filesize":221548,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-4\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Yuko. Berlin. 2018 ","name":"3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 12:50:14","modified":"2019-04-02 13:12:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1875,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1875,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1875,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1875,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1875,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-009-e1554209924738.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1875}},{"ID":75513,"id":75513,"title":"","filename":"So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","filesize":566251,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Anna. Kentfield, California. 2017 ","name":"3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 12:49:28","modified":"2019-04-02 13:12:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1875,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1875,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1875,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1875,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1875,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2017-002-e1554209952236.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1875}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

The turning point was when the opportunity arose to photograph the influential postmodern dancer, Anna Halprin, who taught the likes of Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. Soth visited Halprin at home, then in her late 90s, photographing her through a window in a flowing jade dress, caught amongst the blurs of blossoms reflected in the glass and framed by a fringe of tumbling ivy. \u201cI was interested in spending time with her because she’s a dancer, and she really understands bodies in space. I was interested in being in the space of another person and how that\u2019s affecting everything. <\/b>And she knows that. So, I spent time with her, and I felt good about it and that I wasn\u2019t doing any harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soth\u2019s initial interest in dancers sparked a wider interest in seeking to photograph people who are \u201ccomfortable in space and who might be open to something that\u2019s not just a portrait.\u201d This led him to people like Yuko in Dusseldorf, with marigold yellow hair, or Michelle in Berlin. The result are photographs that translate an \u201cencounter\u201d between two people into photographic form, but one that flickers with the intimacy of knowledge and a desire as Soth says to \u201ckeep things open.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final images sing with Soth’s characteristic detail and description. Unlike much of his previous work, the palette is bright and frequently viridescent \u2014 exuberant greens glisten throughout, glimmering in window frames and repeated in the painted fingernails of a model. Faded pale pinks and romantic shades of lilac and blooming magentas figure often. The majority of the photographs are of interior settings, ones laden with personal bric-a-brac and embellishments: framed photos, the yellowing trim of a lace curtain, a miscellany of paper fragments tacked to a door frame. There is a sense of seeing the world anew, of appreciating its sumptuous beauty, of practicing a fresh optimism, even a na\u00efvet\u00e9. \u201cYou know, my eyes had been washed out a little bit. I wasn’t cynical and so somehow, there’s a bit more innocence in the way of seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

By being open in this way, arguably allowed Soth more room to experiment with his medium too. In a photograph of a Polish singer named Monika, she is visible standing beside a window exactly where her face should be in a up-close portrait at a table. The effect was entirely coincidental: shooting on his large-format glass plate camera, Soth forgot to flip the holder around, which resulted in a striking incidence of double exposure. Meanwhile, in another image of a young man sprawled on a bed, once again captured through dappled glass, Soth\u2019s bulky camera is just-visible in the window reflections<\/p>\n

Standing before the gleaming image in the sun-bright gallery, Soth comes to a realisation: this happenstance re-enacts what he\u2019s trying to do. \u201cIt\u2019s about an experience in space with myself and another person, and that\u2019s my sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":75516,"id":75516,"title":"","filename":"So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","filesize":423112,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-5\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Keni. New Orleans. 2018 ","name":"3300kfdprw0-40-gw0-40-bw0-40-rb9-99-gb9-99-bb9-99s3400-5","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 12:50:33","modified":"2019-04-02 13:13:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1875,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1875,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1875,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1875,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","1536x1536-width":1229,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1875,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/So-2018-010-e1554210085371.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1875}},{"ID":75521,"id":75521,"title":"386494 (1)","filename":"386494-1.jpg","filesize":157913,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alec-soth\/386494-1\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Vince. New York. 2019","name":"386494-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75511,"date":"2019-04-02 13:45:58","modified":"2019-04-02 13:46:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":864,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":77,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","medium-width":864,"medium-height":1080,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","medium_large-width":864,"medium_large-height":1080,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","large-width":864,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":864,"1536x1536-height":1080,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":864,"2048x2048-height":1080,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/386494-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":864,"wpvr_mobile-height":1080}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating<\/i><\/a> runs through to 18 April at LOOCK Galerie, Berlin. For further details of Alec Soth\u2019s concurrent shows, visit his website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating<\/i> <\/a>is out now from MACK.<\/p>\n

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