Reason doesn't really figure in Christiane Draffehn's photomontages. With a Carrollian love of nonsense, she messes around with scale, breeds anthropomorphic beasts and creates fantasy dreamscapes worthy of Dali. The resulting images (such as The Moment, 2008, above) are wacky to say the least. To glean meaning from them is not necessary - or even intended. Draffehn herself cannot offer much in the way of explanation. Rather than attempting to say something profound or coherent, she's simply trying to articulate her own random thought-processes, whims and fancies in visual form. It makes for a series of bonkers-but-beautiful accidents.

Holly Kyte