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Béatrice Hug Color Photography

German, b. 1961
Born in 1961 in Singen, Germany, Béatrice Hug has developed a distinctive visual language that merges the precision of photography with the expressive sensibility of painting. Now based in Paris, Hug transforms the ephemeral qualities of light and color into meditative compositions that blur the boundaries between abstraction and perception. Her work is less a depiction of reality than a translation of its radiance—an exploration of how emotion and vision intertwine through the act of seeing. Working with glass, liquids, and sunlight, Hug constructs intricate still-life arrangements that she photographs using a medium-format Pentax 6x7. The resulting images evoke the spiritual luminosity of stained glass, where light becomes both subject and substance. Through refined control of focus, reflection, and refraction, she captures fleeting chromatic harmonies that seem to oscillate between movement and stillness—moments where time is suspended within color. In series such as CHROMA and Lumières Vives, Hug extends her inquiry into the emotional resonance of light. Her photographs are not static objects but living surfaces, shifting as the viewer moves, dissolving the boundary between image and experience. Radiant yet introspective, they invite contemplation, revealing a world where color becomes a vessel of memory and light a metaphor for the inner life of feeling.
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Artist: Béatrice Hug
Licht II
Licht II

Licht II

By Béatrice Hug

Located in New York City, NY

Born in 1961 in Singen, Germany, Béatrice Hug has developed a distinctive visual language that merges the precision of photography with the expressive sensibility of painting. Now ba...

Category

2010s Contemporary Béatrice Hug Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Or Rose
Or Rose

Or Rose

By Béatrice Hug

Located in New York City, NY

Born in 1961 in Singen, Germany, Béatrice Hug has developed a distinctive visual language that merges the precision of photography with the expressive sensibility of painting. Now ba...

Category

2010s Contemporary Béatrice Hug Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Or Rose
Or Rose

Béatrice HugOr Rose, 2018

Price Upon Request

Or Rose

By Béatrice Hug

Located in New York City, NY

"Béatrice Hug makes colours radiate in all directions and vibrate in a way thought to be restricted to painting, transparencies play like glazes to accent...

Category

2010s Contemporary Béatrice Hug Color Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Licht II
Licht II

Béatrice HugLicht II, 2018

Price Upon Request

Licht II

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"Béatrice Hug makes colours radiate in all directions and vibrate in a way thought to be restricted to painting, transparencies play like glazes to accent...

Category

2010s Contemporary Béatrice Hug Color Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

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